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Scavenging and Refuse Disposal, etc.
The collection of refuse and the conduct of Public Conveniences
in Greenwich are under the control of the Borough Engineer and
Director of Basic Services who has kindly supplied me with the
following information :—
"(a) Street Cleansing and Street Gullies
The statistics are substantially the same as previous years,
namely, that there are 250 miles of roads in the Borough which
were cleansed with the following frequencies :—
at least once daily 9%
three times weekly 21%
twice weekly 70%
More than 100 sweepers were employed and, in addition, a
mechanical sweeper and sprinkler was used to deal with the main
traffic roads and shopping streets. The Blackwall Tunnel Southern
Approach Road is swept only by mechanical sweeper.
There are 15,100 street gullies which were cleansed entirely by
mechanical means three times a year.
(b) Refuse Collection and Disposal
Some 61,825 tons of refuse were collected from normal domestic
and bulk containers. Again, collection was generally weekly
but more frequent from blocks of flats and other premises.
Requests for special collections of unwanted furniture and
household effects, etc., totalled 5,938.
All refuse continues to be disposed of at tips near Dartford,
Kent.
(c) Public Conveniences
Precautions taken against vandalism have proved satisfactory
inasmuch as the Works Committee decided to continue with the
policy of 24-hour opening for all except two conveniences.
(d) Unwanted Cars
These fall into three categories and statistics for each, for
1970, are as follows :
1. Abandoned on roads by owners 446
2. Collected by Council at owners' request 488
3. Delivered by owners 419
1,353