Oh dear. RT @PDimoldenberg: Westminster Council cuts £4.4m from refuse collection & street sweeping -fewer bins, more rubbish on the street over 1 year ago via twitter

Make rubbish fun. Excellent video via Jayne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEKAwCoCKw&feature=video_response over 2 years ago via web

From the excellent (I've just discovered it, but this is spot on) London Informer:

Trellick Tower rubbish bags anger residents
Feb 23 2009 By Juliet Eysenck

Angry North Kensington residents have trashed their housing company after a Trellick Tower rubbish chute was left blocked for six weeks.
The troublesome chute in Trellick Tower, Golborne Road, which was only installed at the end of last year, has been left overflowing since the beginning of January after a large piece of furniture became wedged part way down the chute.

Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO), which runs the tower, told residents to leave their bags next to the chute and they would be collected every morning.

But some stinky bags were left outside lifts, and Trellick Tower residents feared rats and mice would be lured inside the building.
Mervyn Wilkes, who lives on the ninth floor, said: "The TMO spent a lot of money putting the chute in, and it's just not big enough for tenants to put their rubbish down, it's as simple as that. It's not just the smell that's bad, I'm also worried about mice."

Another resident, who preferred not to give her name, added: "I came out of the lifts and rubbish was piled about a metre high. It's smelly and it stinks. One evening, I'd asked a friend round to my house and I felt really embarrassed.

"There were bags of rubbish right outside the lift, and some hadn't even been tied together at the top."

She added that she felt the TMO had not kept her informed of what was being done about the blocked chute.

A TMO spokesman said: "Unfortunately because some people have been abusing the chute it is having to be rebuilt by the installers and work on that is scheduled for the next few days. Our cleaning contractors arrive between 8am and 9am each day to clear rubbish bags from the allocated area.

"Some signs indicating where the allocated area is have been removed, possibly by vandals, but are being replaced.
"We would urge all residents to place their bags in the allocated area until the chute is repaired, but in the meantime we will ensure the bags left by the lifts will be collected."

(I wonder if Juliet Eysenck is any relative of the famous Hans: http://bit.ly/3DeSL1 ?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTf5xjCrWio over 2 years ago via web

From earlier correspondence:

Instead of allowing bags of unsightly, and often stinking, rubbish to accumulate (between – frankly somewhat haphazard – collections), why can’t rubbish wheelie bins be provided on each floor (actually, each three floors, given the elegance of Erno Goldfinger's architecture)? They’re ubiquitous and hardly expensive...

Further, given that RBKC (and perhaps KCTMO) is potentially innovative and cool, and the area is home to most of the next government, and Trellick Tower such a landmark icon (as used in the opening sequence of the London Olympics 2012 handover film), why not go a stage further and ask, say, People Will Always Need Plates (http://www.peoplewillalwaysneedplates.co.uk/trellick.html) to print up some heavy duty stickers to improve the rather dreary look of the things (akin to, I believe, Hackney Council who decorate some of their bins to look like Friesian cows – and if they can do it, surely we can)? I’m sure they’d do it for very little as it would be a great ad for them – and for the building.

You’d also, of course, get huge kudos within the building, and its many and various and often influential (redacted) visitors?

With a bit of creativity, this kind of thing can be much more fun, it really can. If you don't believe me, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY0x04LiEpU over 2 years ago via web

Enough said. This is Trellick Tower. An iconic London building - whether you like it or not - used in the opening sequence of the (no doubt expensive) film marking the handover of the Beijing 2008 Olympics to the London 2012 Olympics.

Note the date on the video. The situation is much the same at the moment, although the Director of Customer Services at the TMO is apparently on the case. Follow me, or this Quiet Riot, for updates.

Because I intend to provide them. Like a blog, only with lots of rubbish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTf5xjCrWio over 2 years ago via web

Yesterday I emailed some Councillors at RBKC about this Quiet Riot.

Perhaps that's why, to their eternal credit - and his - I got a reply today from Keith Holloway, Director of Customer Services & Performance at Kensington and Chelsea TMO - saying I could contact him directly until the matter was resolved.

I call that a win!
over 2 years ago via web

Provide bins on each floor of Trellick Tower. Please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTf5xjCrWio over 2 years ago via web

The chutes in Trellick Tower are frequently closed. The Council seems remarkably reluctant to do the obvious thing: provide the kind of ugly bins that are now ubiquitous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTf5xjCrWio

over 2 years ago via web