September 25th
From Thurrock Council: “Some bins in Stanford Le Hope, North Stifford and South Ockendon could not be collected today. We are planning to send crews out on Thursday to clear these. Please leave your bins out, we apologise for any inconvenience”.
Among the reasons suggested by Thurrock Council.
Obstruction in road
Staff shortages
September 20th
Some bins in Orsett, Linford, East Tilbury, Chadwell St Mary, Tilbury and Bulphan could not be collected today. We are planning to send crews out tomorrow to clear these. Please leave your bins out. We apologise for any inconvenience.
September 18th
Some bins in Stanford Le Hope, Orsett. South Ockendon and North Stifford could not be collected today. We are planning to send crews out tomorrow to clear these. Please leave your bins out, we apologise for any inconvenience.
September 17th
Some bins in Stanford Le Hope and Corringham could not be collected today. We are planning to send crews out tomorrow to clear these. Please leave your bins out, we apologise for any inconvenience.
September 13th
Some blue bins in Grays could not be collected today. We are planning to send crews out to clear these. Please leave your bins out, we apologise for any inconvenience.
September 10th
Some blue bins in Corringham could not be collected today. We are planning to send crews out tomorrow to clear these. Please leave your bins out, we apologise for any inconvenience.
September 7th
Waste crews have been unable to collect some blue bins in Aveley, West Thurrock and Chafford Hundred and some garden waste in West Thurrock and Aveley. These will be collected on Monday. We apologise for any inconvenience.
September 5th
Some blue bins in East Tilbury and Tilbury could not be collected today. Crews will clear these tomorrow (6 September). If your recycling wasn’t collected please leave your bins out. We apologise for any inconvenience.
September 4th
Some green waste and recycling bins could not be collected in South Ockendon, Stanford le Hope and Horndon on the Hill today. Crews are planning to collect this waste tomorrow so please leave any uncollected bins out. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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YT asked Thurrock Council, why so many bins were not being collected.
A spokesperson said: “Waste collections can be missed for a number of operational reasons including poorly parked vehicles preventing bin lorries from being able to access roads and traffic congestion. When roads have been missed waste is normally collected the following day during normal working hours.
“Over the last few weeks Thurrock Council has adopted a more proactive use of its social media feeds to alert residents to the situation and advise them to leave their bins out for collection the next day”.
If the bin lorry can’t get through the fire engines won’t make it in a emergency either.
I make you right there Rocket1.
People have no thought and they are the first ones to moan. That said they miss our bins occasionally and cannot use that excuse.
missed my blue and brown bin today.
In Horndon-on-the-Hill the green bins were not collected this week on Tuesday 4 September – the planned day – and our brown bin was partially emptied only. Having contacted Thurrock Council about this there was a very prompt email reply to say that due to operational difficulties nothing could be done before the next normal collection day (Tuesday 11 September).
Clearly Thurrock Council appear to have a major problem at the moment but it isn’t clear if it is staffing or the lorries. Let’s hope all is sorted for next week.
Incompetence thats all it is.