The bin bods wake me too, but i try to make it a positive in that I'm, awake early and so maybe try to get to work early and finish a bit early too.
However, before you all start, that suits me, not everyone.
Having had a number of issues with the council service over the years, calling the numbers on the Lewisham website doesn't get you far. Using the council website complaint facility in a focussed way gets a waaaaaaaaay bigger response as it is considrered a KPI, or measure of service satisfaction and is monitered by people that moniter bad comments (and you know councils don't like their satisfaction levels diminished).
Staff don't necessarily deal with complaints or issues fully, in my experience, as it goes against them/their team/department etc workloads, outputs, outcomes etc etc. A shame, yes indeed.
Maybe try it and see what happens.
Big love