I am not making excuses for people who #FlyTip…it’s a terrible blight on our communities.
But less bin collections and making it harder to access local #refuse and #recycling centres surely plays a big part in all this?
I strongly suspect the desire to keep council taxes low for political gain, while privatising refuse services who offer less and less year on year is how we ended up in the awful mess.
RT from Love Bell Green (@OurBellGreen)
This was reported 6 days ago, but the only thing that has happened is... more rubbish. No sign of any action from @LewishamCouncil environmental team. #lewishamhomes #se26 #bellgreen #sydenham #flytip #rubbish
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/OurBellGreen/status/1678365002611212294
The parliamentary watchdog on public spending has accused the Department of Health and Social Care for England of wasting £4bn of taxpayers’ money on unusable personal protective equipment in the first year of the covid-19 pandemic and of planning to burn much of it to “generate power.”1 The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee made the claim in its report on the Department of Health and Social Care’s accounts for 2020-21, the first year of the pandemic. The report paints a damning picture of the fallout from the government’s rush to compete with the rest of the world to procure PPE, bypassing the usual due diligence in its race to secure supplies. Of £12bn spent on PPE, £4bn was spent on items that failed to meet NHS standards …
RT from Our Bell Green (@OurBellGreen)
The secret lives of trolleys. #litter #flytip #abandoned #trolleys #bellgreen #bromley #lewisham #london #se26
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/OurBellGreen/status/1654194719264501760
RT from Our Bell Green (@OurBellGreen)
Two bags of litter picked out of this entrance way to @sainsburys in Bell Green 💚. #litter #flytip #sainsburys #sydenham #bellgreen #greatbritishspringclean @KeepBritainTidy #london
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/OurBellGreen/status/1638586129552220175
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