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Описание: I like to see experiments aimed at improving local services. But always provided they are reviewed and evaluated. So even experiments which fail, or partly or wholly succeed, can lead to learning with the lessons applied. Learning from failure may be productive if there is genuine examination of why and how something failed. Learning from success can be equally valuable. In fact succeeding without knowing why you succeeded may be of little use. Either way we need a willingness to learn from what went wrong (or right) and effective ways to apply that learning. Two commonly found alternatives to such learning are: ( 1 ) to hide or gloss over failure - sometimes spinning it as success or (2) Simply boasting of a success e.g. in a PR release. But without examining or questioning the factors on which the success is based. In particular, without asking whether or not a successful outcome will be reproduced elsewhere or, say, scaled-up. ________________________ My photo shows a small experiment which - at least partly - seemed to work. The black plastic storage bin is at the eastern end of St Loy's Road N17. It's near the junction with the High Road Tottenham. Veolia is Haringey Council's waste management contractors and its street cleaners put litter and other street waste into distinctive purple bags for later collection. The black bin retains the bags, avoiding a pile in the street maybe tempting people to leave more litter and waste next to them. It's essential the black bins are emptied regularly, so street cleaners don't have to leave bags nearby, encouraging and perhaps almost "inviting" some dumping. In this photo on 30 January 2018, the bag on the pavement was 'joined' by a cardboard box.

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