Cleaner Havering news from Havering Council

header
Cleaner Havering logo

Cleaner Havering news and information from Havering Council.

Friday 9 January 2015


Samsung Galaxy Tab 2

Win A Samsung Tablet!

Residents stand a chance to get their hands on a refurbished Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 with 8GB of storage and a seven inch screen by completing this quick survey about waste electronics.

Closing date is Friday 30 January at 5pm.

Enter here.


Gerpins Lane fly tipping

CCTV catches fly-tipper

A 48-year-old man from Gidea Park has been convicted,  after he was caught on camera fly-tipping on Little Gerpins Lane in Upminster on Thursday 13 October 2013. 

​The area has seen a number of fly-tips in recent years, so the Council regularly uses CCTV there, which captured Mehmet Arnavut dumping around 10 black bags of building materials in an underused part of the road. 

Arnavut pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay a fine of £500 with £430 costs and a £50 victim surcharge at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Friday 12 December. 

More information here.


Give and Take Day

Give and Take Days

Give and Take Days are on the last Wednesday of every month at Romford Central Library, from 10:30am to 1:30pm and at the Salvation Army​, High Street, Romford, on the first Friday of every month from 10am to 1pm. 

 


Serco lorry battery recycling cage

Battery collections

If you live in a house in the Borough, you can now easily recycle your used batteries by placing them in a small carrier or sandwich bag and putting them out with your orange and black sacks.

The collection vehicles have a special compartment (pictured) for the batteries to be collected in. Once the collection vehicle gets to the tipping site the batteries get emptied into a larger storage box which, once full, is taken to a battery re-processor so the batteries can be recycled.

More information on which batteries can be recycled is available here.


CCTV camera

Expanding CCTV

Havering is the third largest London borough, and one of the greenest, with a lot of rural land. So the Council has been using CCTV in hard-to-reach areas with the hope of deterring would-be fly-tippers and catching any offenders. 

Councillor Robert Benham, Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “We’re going to be expanding our reach with CCTV in rural areas, and people should know that we’ll be watching.”

Fly-tipping carries a maximum penalty of £50,000 and/or 12 months imprisonment when the case is heard in the Magistrates' Court, or a five-year prison sentence and unlimited fine if the case goes to the Crown Court.

You can also use this form to report details of fly tip offenders, if you witness someone dumping the rubbish.

More information available here.


Report it logo

Help keep Havering clean

Using the online report forms is an easy way to help keep Havering clean as the form goes direct to the Council staff responsible for taking action on the issue you raise.

You can report the following online:

Trolley Wise logo

Report dumped trollies to win £300

Report an abandoned trolley for a chance to win £300′s worth of retail vouchers from Trolleywise.

All you need to do is download the FREE Trolleywise app from here to automatically qualify for our monthly prize draw.

Each month Trolleywise contact a winner via email and forward valuable prize vouchers from UK retailers.


400 extra points logo

Bonus Points

Thanks to the reducing, reusing and recycling efforts of London Green Points Havering members, an extra 400 Green Points has been given to each activated household.

Those points can be redeemed for green products, sports activities at leisure centres or donated to local charities.

The green card can also be used to get special offers at some local businesses.

Sign up for your FREE London Green Points – Havering account here.


Sew and swish workshop

Sew and Swish

The typical British household owns around £4,000 worth of clothing and on average, 30% of the clothes in our wardrobes haven't been worn in the last year. Attend a FREE Sew and Swish workshop to learn new skills and love your clothes again.

The next one is at Upminster Library on Saturday 17 January - just book now!


Email news logo

This newsletter is sent to you because you asked Havering Council for news on Cleaner Havering.

We hope you find this information useful and will encourage friends, family and colleagues to subscribe too.

Keep up-to-date with other news from Havering Council by signing up for our email newsletter then choose the topics that are of interest to you.

The full list of email newsletters currently produced by Havering Council can be seen here.