The Orange Bag scheme for recycling is a terrific idea and is working from the point of view that people are recycling, but there are problems of implementation which are making it appear to be somewhat controversial. The lack of a sufficient number of Blue Bins and early Sunday morning pickup are creating problems that should not exist. In some sense the Orange Bag scheme in this area is creating these problems by its own success.

I've been addressing these problems for over a year, but they persist as of this morning. Since this excessive noise from this pickup wakes me on a Sunday morning, I have been filming the problem as I did once again this morning. Only a video clip record of what actually happens can make any impression since verbal descriptions are all too easily dismissed. I've made nine snapshots from this morning's video clip to display here in order to highlight the problems.

Originally, there were only four Blue Bins for recycling which were used as receptacles for the Saturday pickup of the Orange Bags. It's very nice to have these picked up from in front of one's door on Saturday mornings, and this encourages people to recycle. It works. Last year (2005) when there were only four Blue Bins out front, some 60 to 80 or more Orange Bags were dumped on the ground at one end of the Blue Bins. These remained overnight attracting vermin which were often seen scavenging inside the Blue Bins and filmed. Not only were so many Orange Bags piled on the ground, but they were stacked as high as possible in the Blue Bins with their top lids open.

The problem with this accumulation of rubbish is that it attracted fly tipping as well. Fundamentally, as I comprehensively reported over a year ago (see the letter below dated 26th July 2005 to the Leader of the Council with copies to the local police inspector, the TMO Chief Executive, the Environmental Services Executive Director and the local TMO/EMB Area Manager). The reason that I sent this to these people is explained in letter since there was a campaign against rubbish tipping including police surveillance to stop this problem.

I wanted to point out that while this expensive and resource consuming campaign was being carried out, the Council itself was in effect carrying out fly tipping and priming the pump so to speak for others to fly tip. I included extensive video evidence of the problem so that it could be properly addressed. Those doing the work are not the source of the problem. They are struggling to do the job while not given adequate facilities in the form of Blue Bins for this Orange Bag disposal. This existed last year and still exists today as demonstrated by the photos below. The overall rubbish removal job is made more difficult and expensive by the failure to provide adequate Blue Bin disposal facilities.

In addition, this rubbish left out all night as seen below attracts vermin who feed on this rubbish even if it is recyclable. The other fly tipped rubbish might provide more tasty meals for the vermin. Thus, not only is there a larger problem created for those trying to do a job properly, but there is an impact with respect to feeding vermin in the proximity of hundreds of flat who also pose a threat to those removing the recyclables. I have photographed the larger vermin scavenging for food inside these Blue Bins when they are open, and I've also photographed a large vermin leaping out of one of the Blue Bins right at one of these guys opening its lid to check inside before removal. This larger animal flew right by the head of this guy. He was put at direct risk from an attack by this larger animal which could have been quite serious.

On top of all of this is the fact that surveillance is being carried out against me 24/7 with the most totally invasive surveillance technology ever known, yet nothing is done to maintain the proper standard with respect to this rubbish disposal and removal. The Council and police mounted a campaign against fly tipping which included surveillance to bring this to a halt. Right here there is already surveillance in place which does nothing about adderssing this fly tipping problem that originates from the Council itself. Instead, I am attack viciously and continuously trying to stop me from reporting these problems so that the safety and health of all involved can be protected, and the resources necessary for such rubbish disposal are not wasted.

While preparing this web journal entry, Lt Harry Bird shouted "We're trying to stop him."

I was woken from a sound sleep at 0827 by the sound of the rubbish truck reversing. I got up to film this which was the start of the film about a minute or two after this process began. The two guys are removing the locks from five of the six Blue Bins. The one without the lock has its lid open and is piled high with Orange Bags. I consider this to be encouraging fly tipping which can be seen in the carboard boxes in front of the Blue Bins and what looks like a carpet in the foreground.
A close up of the apparent carpet on the ground. I have no idea what is underneath it, but it appears to be resting on something.
These are the cardboard boxes filled with bags of something in front of the Blue Bins. Not only do these provide a potential feeding source for vermin, but when it rains as it does from time to time overnight, these turn into a soggy and heavy mess.
The fly tipped rubbish creates more work for those picking up the Blue Bins. This guy is putting an apparent non-recyclable object on top of the carpet. The boxes and their contents were put on the top of the Blue Bin contents after he unlocked and opened their lids.
He is finishing putting those cardboard boxes and their contents on top of the Blue Bin contents. There are a couple cans on the ground and other small bits of rubbish that were apparently behind the cardboard boxes.
With two of the Blue Bins pulled out and taken to the truck for emptying, rubbish on the ground under and behind the Blue Bins starts to become evident. There are a couple milkshake/drink containers on the ground further up from the cans.
As the rest of the Blue Bins are removed, what appears to be a vermin trap for large vermin is revealed along with the rubbish and leaves that accumulate and remain almost permanently along the wall behind the Blue Bins. This apparent trap for the large vermin is useless since there is so much else that is more attractive for scavenging especially the open and overfilled Blue Bin. As I've observed this situation, this trap has not appeared to have been effective although it may have gotten some of the larger vermin. Larger vermin still exist including pigeons for which this apparent trap is useless, but the real problem comes from the vermin that cannot be seen.
It's a real struggle and hard work to drag these overfilled Blue Bins to the truck for emptying. There is an earlier film clip portion revealing the fact that this guy had to reach up under the emptying Blue Bin inside the truck to pull out rubbish to get it to empty completely. It appears that overfilling these Blue Bins like this causes a safety and health problem for these guys while they carry out their work. Solution: a couple more Blue Bins to take on the excess Orange Bags.
When all is done and the truck just departed, the carpet remains. It's not their responsibility to remove it. They only locked five of the six Blue Bins. One lock went missing many months ago and has not been replaced. This unlocked Blue Bin is the one that gets overfilled as noted at the start setting the standard for fly tipping or just careless dumping.

1. A couple more Blue Bins are needed as I noted last year. Only two were added to the four at that time. I had suggested last year that three to four more were needed, and I supplied video clips of the problem so that people could sit comfortably in their offices and count the bags which were then being dumped on the ground when such information would not otherwise be available without considerable effort.

2. The lost lock needs to be replaced on the one one Blue Bin. The Council does not follow its own directives in keeping such Blue Bins closed and locked. Thus, a Saturday pickup that overfills a Blue Bin remains overnight.

3. Noise nuisance quite early on a Sunday morning needs to be abated consistent with other noise nuisance regulations specifically intended for Sundays only.

4. The ground under these Blue Bins should be cleaned frequently perhaps each day. Every day someone from the Estate runs an engine driven vacuum cleaner around outside. These Blue Bins are easy to move especially when empty. All that is needed is to pull them forward and run this motorised vacuum cleaner behind them, say, three times a week at the very least. Does anyone check this apparent vermin trap? It ought to be checked daily. Why not clean daily?

These other problems can be solved a couple ways. Pick up this rubbish later on Sundays, say after noon. Or, pick it up on the day it's put out on Saturdays. Then it won't be a problem if it is put on the ground for a few hours. Adding a couple more Blue Bins (there is room for them) will end these disposal problems for this area. What happens at Grenfell Tower where there are more Blue Bins is another matter.

The real problem here is the abuse of surveillance technology to preserve image management by trying to destroy the person (me) who reports these and related problems. It's obvious all around that the surveillance has nothing to do with maintaining standards as is cited from time to time by those using it but is being used on a specific basis against one target.

Since there is a substantial involvement of many people from this environment and elsewhere in the abuse of this surveillance technology, it is clear that such usage has nothing to do with an objective investigation but is used to repress dissent and those who would complain such as I do in order to maintain health and safety standards for all concerned.

When this fails as it as done as shown here after extensive correspondence in the past (see below), I am attacked by those using the surveillance technology when I document and report this problem once. Therefore, I make this public since it is part of a much larger government management problem overall and reflects the essence of that problem here in one of its manifestations.

From:
Gary D Chance
Tuesday, 26th July 2005

Cllr Merrick Cockell
Leader of the Council
c/o Room 151
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Town Hall, Horton Street
London W8 7NX

Dear Cllr Cockell

Re Operation Evader and the Council’s Own Fly Tipping

Last weekend I sent an e-mail to most of you about this problem. Once again this weekend I have video taped the continuing fly tipping by the Council of recyclable Orange Bags against the wall outside Hurstway Walk at the end of Testerton Walk near Whitchurch Road.

After I had finished video taping this sequence of events on Saturday and Sunday last, the Royal Borough Newspaper was hand-delivered at 11:48 a.m. Sunday morning, 24th July 2005. It contained two astonishing articles about rat infestation and Operation Evader praising the efforts of a massive Council wide effort by scores of people to address fly tipping.

Herein you will find documented direct evidence of the selfsame Royal Borough engaging in the very fly tipping which it so gallantly condemns as something to be eschewed.

I have provided copies of these two articles for your perusal against the background of the evidence provided by the videos enclosed on the CD. These videos consist of the seven clips taken on Saturday and Sunday last reflecting the fly tipping by the Council.

In addition the first two video clips are from Monday morning, 13 June 2005, which reflect the extraordinary dumping of rubbish on the floor inside ************ Walk. There was an extensive sticky substance on the floor by the second floor rubbish chute door.

I happened to also note and videotape a long streak of an apparent leakage from a rubbish bag dragged along the second floor Walkway area leading to my end. I videotaped this below me as I walked back to my flat and was quite surprised to see it go right to the door of flat ****** below.

These are the people who have been waging a seven year 24/7 surveillance technology driven criminal harassment campaign against me for having reported crime and antisocial behaviour in this environment. This is an excellent example of their attacking me in a systematic manner to cover up their own behaviour while making false allegations against me of the most absurd kind.

While I was collecting this fly tipping evidence, the same verbal abuse which I experience from these people 24/7 continued and is noted on at least one video clip. While I was preparing these videos, copies of the articles and this letter, I have been subjected to this same extreme verbal abuse using the surveillance technology as a weapon in order to intimidate me hoping to stop my activity and pervert the course of justice. This is consistent with the pattern of such behaviour directed against me commencing on 11th May 1998 by public declaration.

Further it is most important to note that while I was videotaping the fly tipping activity, those with the surveillance technology could see exactly what I was doing inside my home, and as a result they engaged in direct verbal abuse on two separate occasions which are noted below.

This is clearly an abuse of power with regard to the utilisation of the surveillance technology and reflects the pattern of such criminal intent which has existed for the past seven years 24/7.

Here we have an instance of the Council itself engaging in the very activity which it condemns so robustly in the attached article about Operation Evader. A specific example of such coordinated effort directed against the nearby St. Marks Road area under the Westway in using “surveillance” to capture illegal fly tippers noted how bad this problem is in the Notting Dale area. Yet, after I specifically reported this activity over a week ago, nothing was done to stop it.

Furthermore, those with the surveillance technology have noted my documenting this during June and July and failed to address the problem. Obviously, surveillance is being used as a weapon to silence those who report such anti social and now criminal behaviour while the Royal Borough Newspaper projects an image of surveillance being used to effectively catch the fly tipper. There is a hypocrisy and a double standard here of the most damaging kind. This is called image management, and there is no real management in a comprehensive meaningful way.

Thus, the Council itself then carries out a terrible example on a continuous basis of fly tipping setting an example for everyone in this environment that the standards for rubbish disposal do not apply to the Council. I want to point this out using a relevant direct quote from this article: “... [Operation Evader] was about educating local people about what services are available to them and also making sure the Council is targeting its resources to enhance the quality of areas that need attention.”

And, I want to point out a comment from the article about ‘rats at your rubbish:’ “Yet storing our rubbish properly and putting it out for collection on the right day can go a long way towards keeping them away from your home.”

The Council puts the recyclable Orange Bags on the ground overnight not on the day of collection. Then it makes a very noisy collection early on Sunday mornings to which I strongly object as a noise nuisance early on Sunday morning. This should either be picked up on Saturdays or stored in more recycle bins for a weekday pickup (not on Sunday).

If you study this information carefully, you will note that all the representations by the Council are so much nonsense. Not only does the Council think and act above the law with respect to rubbish disposal, it acts in an extended and comprehensive manner involving scores of people to stop me from reporting this problem and others along with the very source of these problems.

Those people utilising the surveillance technology are the very people associated with flat ****** below who are noted repeatedly for their well-documented antisocial behaviour with respect to rubbish disposal. This is just one aspect of this problem which these people generate.

I want to quote once more from the “Crime Bagged” article: “... but fly tipping contributes to a rundown appearance in any area and can increase the fear of crime, endanger health and safety, and result in local people losing pride in where they live.”

The verbal abuse which I am currently receiving while I write this continues because the surveillance technology is in the operational control of the daughter of the tenant in flat ****** below, and she verbally attacks literally everything that I do no matter what it is. An example of the need for doing so can be seen in these video clips.

The following is the order by filename of the video clips on the attached CD.

A. The first two video clips reflect the extensive rubbish accumulation inside *********** Walk. These two video clips were taken on Monday, 13 June 2005, and reflect continuous rubbish left on the floor day and night.

1. 0506130751 Rubbish on Floor 3rd & 2nd Floor Rubbish Chute Areas by Front Door. Monday, 13th June 2005 at 0751. Duration: 01:43.52.

2. 0506130754 Rubbish Bag Leakage: 2nd Floor Rubbish Chute Area to Flat 503's Front Door. Monday, 13th June 2005 at 0754. Duration: 01:26.16.

B. The following seven video clips listed in date/time order by filename reflect the weekend cycle with regard to recyclable disposal and collection with over 60 recyclable Orange Bags placed on the ground by the wall near the front door of ********** Walk. These are placed on the ground by about 1300 each and every Saturday after the four recycle bins are filled. These are left on the ground until the following morning when collection is carried out.

3. 0507230739 Recycle Bin Area By Wall Near Whitchurch Road All Clean. Saturday, 23rd July 2005 at 0739. Duration: 00:37.36.

4. 0507231155 Recyclable Orange Bags Tipped by the Now Filled Recycle Bins with Large Piece of Cardboard on Ground. Saturday, 23rd July 2005 at 1155. Duration: 01:22.56.

5. 0507231209 More Fly Tipping with Recyclable Orange Bags and Loose Items in Progress Accompanied by Verbal Abuse From Nearby. Saturday, 23rd July 2005 at 1209. Duration: 05:46.00.

Photographed them putting more Orange Bags on the ground. Female yelling “Psychotic” and “There” while she kept on talking nonstop. This might be recorded on the camcorder. Her voice can be heard on the video clip but is indistinct.

6. 0507231325 Loose Cardboard Added To Recyclable Orange Bags And Wagon Gone. Verbal Abuse From A Nearby Male. Saturday, 23rd July 2005 at 1325. Duration: 01:40.00.

Male said “Faggot,” “Psychotic,” “Right there” while I was photographing the rubbish heaped on the ground. I let the camcorder run awhile to capture this sound. It is not distinctly audible on the video clip as was the earlier comment.

7. 0507240721 Fly Tipped Recyclable Orange Bags After Sitting on Ground Overnight. Fortunately It Did Not Rain. Sunday, 24th July 2005 at 0721. Duration: 01:42.64.

8. 0507240743 Sunday Morning Recyclables Removal Video Resumes After Obtaining Transformer for Power After Battery Runs Out. Sunday, 24th July 2005 at 0743. Duration: 07:36.80.

9. 0507241137 And The Expected Rains Came. Sunday, 24th July 2005 at 1137. Duration: 00:36.08.

C. Copies of two key articles directly relevant to the above video clips from the Royal Borough Newspaper which I just happen to receive by hand delivery on Sunday morning, 24th July 2005, at 11:48 a.m. after having completed the above video clips.

10. Royal Borough Newspaper Summer 2005 No 137 received at 1148 Sunday 24th July 2005: “Are there rats at your rubbish?” page 2.

11. Royal Borough Newspaper Summer 2005 No 137 received at 1148 Sunday 24th July 2005: “Environment crime bagged” page 11.

Yours sincerely

/s/GDC

enclosure

cc Inspector Sarah Stanton, Notting Dale Sector, Notting Hill Police Station
Gordon Perry, Chief Executive, RBK&C TMO
Michael Stroud, Executive Director, Environmental Services
Damien Donnelly, Area Manager, TMO

This is one of the Labour Party flyers distributed just before the local elections last 4th May 2006. "A safer, cleaner environment" it trumpets promising these three Labour Councillors are here to help all year round. Tell me about it. The election has been won by these three, and the Council tipping continues as it did last year. They are out of touch with their Notting Barns Ward except for at least two who have participated in the abuse of surveillance technology. More votes are to e gained that way.

Mushtaq Lasharie lives in the Lancaster West Estate and is a Director on the Board of the Council's Tenant Management Organisation (TMO). Image management must be his developing expertise. Simon Blanchflower stood down and was replaced by Catherine Atkinson. "Simon" was used in conjunction with one of the Councillors participating in the criminal abuse of the surveillance technology. Simon Blanchflower was on the Lancaster West Estate Management Board (EMB) and lived in the Estate too.

They could not make certain that the recyclable rubbish was disposed of properly. They must have been and are spending too much time attached to the surveillance technology with is pointed objective. Last week showed the world what this Labour government is all about. Social control is its standard in order to pander to the basest interest of the most voters. This means that criminal and antisocial behaviour become the standard for the Lancaster West Estate.

They along with Labour's Member of Parliament, Karen Buck, for North Kensington and others cannot escape accountability and responsibility for all that has occurred in this environment over these years. It is my belief that I have been used as a Labour Party government experiment for social control, engineering and legislation development in the most abusive and destructive criminal manner known to civilised humans. Why haven't these people stopped it? Are they ignorant or criminal? All of this will come out in legal processing.