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Friday 6 March 2015


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Renew your green bin service

If you hire a Garden Waste bin (green bin) from Havering Council you need to renew your contact before Tuesday 31 March 2015 if you want the service to continue from  Wednesday 1 April 2015 until Thursday 31 March 2016.

To renew online you need to have a My Account from Havering Council, which is different from the account which sends you this email bulletin.

Once you have My Account you can use it to access a range of other council services, such as renewing parking permits online.

You can renew, and pay for, the Garden Waste service online here if you have signed up for My Account.

If you have already renewed, you don’t need to do anything.

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Don’t risk a fine – bag it and bin it

Help us to keep the borough clean by disposing of dog mess properly and reporting repeat dog mess offenders.

If you are a dog owner you face a fine if you don’t clean up after your pet. Not cleaning up means you could find yourself paying an  £80 fixed penalty for each offence or a maximum penalty of £1,000 if you are taken to court.

Properly bagged dog mess can go in:

  • with your normal household rubbish

  • a normal public bin

  • a dog mess bin

Throwing the bag into a hedge doesn’t count as disposing of dog mess properly and means you could still be fined.

If you see a regular dog walker who doesn’t clean up any mess left by their pet you can report them and Havering Council will follow up your report.

If you see dog mess please report it here.


Ongar Way fly tipping

Fly-tipping can be costly

Havering Council is continuing its crackdown on fly-tippers caught dumping rubbish in the borough.

Recent successful prosecutions include:

  • James Atkins, age 21 of Dagenham, was photographed dumping around 15 tonnes of waste (pictured) near unused garages in Ongar Way, Rainham. He was fined £1,125.00 with £972.00 costs and £112.00 victim surcharge at Romford Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday 9 December.

  • Jason Sabine, age 53 of Wickford, was caught on CCTV dumping a large drum, which happened to be full of dog mess, in Upper Rainham Road, Hornchurch. He pleaded guilty at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Friday 9 January and was fined £200, ordered to pay £438 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.

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 report fly-tipping online here.


New bins boost recycling.

Bright new orange bins are appearing in the refuse areas of Havering Council flats and sheltered housing schemes as part of a campaign to encourage tenants to recycle more of their household waste.

Pictured is resident Gordon Kirkley using one of the new recycling bins at Queen Street, Romford

You can get more information about recycling here.

Gordon Kirkley with orange euro bin

Compost bin

Be quick to compost

If you’re a Havering resident and have not yet claimed your free garden compost bin and food caddy you need to act fast as the application deadline is Tuesday 31 March.

The compost bins come in two sizes and are ideal for turning garden and food waste into compost to use in the garden – all you pay for is the delivery.

There is a maximum of one bin per household and orders will be taken on a first come, first served basis while stocks last.

Order your compost bins here.


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Can you be a Havering Green Points Champion?

More than 25,000 Havering households have joined the London Green Points – Havering rewards scheme but we want to see even more.

That is why we are looking for volunteers to become London Green Points – Havering champions to spread the reduce, reuse, recycle message in their communities.

Each champion will receiving training and support as well as gaining extra green points for attending meetings and events.

For more information about becoming a champion email Bethany Fruen.

Any Havering household can join the London Green Points – Havering scheme here.


Serco lorry battery recycling cage

Battery collections

If you live in a house in the Borough, you can now easily recycle your used household 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.  


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Help keep Havering clean

Reporting online is an easy way to help keep Havering clean as your report goes direct to the people responsible for taking action on the issue you raise.

You can report the following online:

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Sign up for My Account

Before you can use Havening Council’s online Report It and Pay for It services you need to sign up for a free My Account.

Simply click on the link, add your contact details, create a password and wait for the activation email to appear in your inbox, click on that email and you’re ready to use the service.


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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.


Restart champion

Shocking waste can be cut

Many small electrical items can be repaired rather than thrown away and a new partnership aims to stop these items being thrown away.

Havering Council is partnering with The Restart Project to offer residents and community groups the opportunity to learn how to repair their waste electricals and electronic equipment (WEEE).

If you would like to learn how to repair electrical items, and help others to repair their own items, at your school or community group, and register to become a Havering Restart Volunteer Champion, please submit your request here and we'll get in touch.

We are also looking for qualified PAT testers who can help out at our workshops.

You can sign up here to be a Restarter Champion.

Find out more about electrical waste recycling here.


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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.


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