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"Call for CCTV to crackdown on litter and dog mess"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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It is just me, or is that picture of Lochend Park a picture of what happens when the council don't bother emptying bins?
Posted 10 years ago # -
@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.
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.
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?!
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Hate littering, hate dog poo, but CCTV seems a massive over-reaction. Will it just be used for that as well?
Posted 10 years ago # -
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?
Posted 10 years ago # -
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?
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
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