Britain's 'poshest binman' rakes in £625k-a-year as 'council services aren't up to speed'

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Britain's 'poshest binman' rakes in £625k-a-year as 'council services aren't up to speed'.

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A former City worker who swapped shipbroking for refuse collection has built a waste removal empire generating approximately £625,000 in annual revenue.Will Ferguson, a-father-of three, operates The Junk Monkey from West London, providing private rubbish collection services to households frustrated with inadequate council provisions.Mr Ferguson told the Sun: "I'm taking things away because the council services aren't up to speed.

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Items have to be left outside and people can be waiting for weeks, which isn't good enough."His company, which has expanded over two decades, now runs a fleet of eight vehicles and charges a minimum of £75 plus VAT for callouts.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The private waste collection sector has experienced remarkable expansion, with business data analyst IbisWorld reporting that approximately 1,300 independent firms now operate in this space, compared with just 760 in 2015.Local authorities began abandoning weekly collections during the mid-1990s as...

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