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Oliver Schick
More than a decade ago, Hackney put official skips around the borough (probably not everywhere, but in a lot of areas) on a regular basis. So many houses (and gardens) were so full of crap that the skips were filled in no time. When they were replaced, the new skips likewise were filled in a couple of hours. If Greenwich did that for a short time, they would probably tackle much of that problem, but obviously with 'austerity' having led to councils having to charge for basic services, they probably couldn't afford to. When I last looked, the bulky waste charge for Hackney was £15 per call-out, not per item, but I bet that this, too, is causing people to hold on to items (or to flytip them somewhere if they don't know private waste is accepted by some dumps free of charge).