• ABOUT two months ago Camden Council removed their recycling bins from opposite Finchley Road Underground station.

For about a fortnight before their removal, notes were stuck on the bins advising how to obtain recycling bags which – when filled – would be collected from Finchley Road before 8am.

I promptly ordered such bags and asked where on Finchley Road they would be collected from. I had neither bags nor any answer to my question as to where exactly I should place such bags.

Recent extensive correspondence with Veolia (Camden’s waste contractor) did not reveal answers as to where I can take my recycling material instead of the bins which were removed from Finchley Road.

The only answer I kept getting was to ask my landlords to organise a recycle bin as well as collection for our block of flats.

In spite of my repeated questions, no details were revealed as to with whom exactly and where the landlords should make contact and how much the project would cost.

The words “commercial department” were mentioned several times but not clarified as to whose commercial department and where.

Two ideas occur:

1. Camden might have removed the recycling bins from Finchley Road in order to encourage financial arrangements benefiting some commercial department.

2. Camden is not interested in recycling.

What happened to the council’s promise to look after our environment?

DR AGNES KORY
Finchley Road, NW3