http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Call for CCTV to crackdown on litter and dog mess" en Fri, 22 May 2026 05:58:39 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187474 Fri, 01 May 2015 11:08:28 +0000 kaputnik 187474@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We certainly don't need anyone dropping hot "disposable" barbecues into the communal bins! The ones on the Meadows marked "no barbecues in this bin" used to regularly go on fire because idiots put hot barbecues in them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187464 Fri, 01 May 2015 10:34:50 +0000 fimm 187464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Harrison Park similarly has a "problem" with insufficient bin capacity in barbeque season. I think the council do come round and clean up more frequently at that time of the year. I do wonder if people think they're not allowed to throw stuff into the big tenement bins if the park bin is full. Maybe an addition to the "How to barbeque considerately" notice to point out the location of larger bins would be useful? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187405 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:35:10 +0000 robyvecchio 187405@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>CCTV is a "stick" reaction with not much of a "carrot". Could that money be spent instead on advertising the collection of bulky items? Maybe lower the charge for single items? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187404 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:17:01 +0000 paddyirish 187404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hate littering, hate dog poo, but CCTV seems a massive over-reaction. Will it just be used for that as well? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187403 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:11:26 +0000 dougal 187403@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Every time I walk along the Water of Leith near Coburg Street there's a huge number of empty bread bags knotted around the railings. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187394 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:44:31 +0000 kaputnik 187394@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gibbo the council empty the bins in Lochend fairly regularly, except they aren't particularly big and have small apertures not suited to being rammed full of cans, juice bottles, pizza boxes and disposable barbecues. In short, they just can't cope with the results of even one afternoon of drinking and barbecueing in the park.</p> <p>It's generally only a few bins in the park that are like this, near the flat grass or the seating areas. The others are usually fine. The park could definitely do with a few bigger bins if people can't be bothered to carry out the waste that they carried in. The nearest big publicly-accessible bins to the park are either back down Marionville Road by the tenements or hidden away in the bin compounds of the Butterfly flats.</p> <p>We litter pick in the park every weekend. The biggest offenders are McDonalds-related detritus, beer tins and bagged-but-not-binned dog turds. However my biggest pet hate (after the dog turds) are the number of empty bread bags that float around the little wooden platform. Who goes to feed the ducks then dumps their bread bag in the pond?! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187391 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 13:09:43 +0000 gibbo 187391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It is just me, or is that picture of Lochend Park a picture of what happens when the council don't bother emptying bins? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14754#post-187388 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:51:02 +0000 chdot 187388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/call-for-cctv-to-crackdown-on-litter-and-dog-mess-1-3758880" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/call-for-cctv-to-crackdown-on-litter-and-dog-mess-1-3758880</a> </p>