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"Damning study rates Edinburgh’s streets filthiest in Scotland"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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They are...an utter disgrace but this is not new either, and I fondly remember Edinburgh as being filthy, and has been for years/decades. I think a particularly good move was last year re-introducing the fee for a "special" pick up to £20 a shot. As some households appear to go through an alarming number of appliances/furniture then of course they are going to get shoved into a van and tipped somewhere rather than pay the £20 or if you turn up in a van at a dump you are charged to deposit your load. The city centre has always been a mess for as long as I can remember, and that is a long time. No where to hide, blaming the bad weather last year....face it as one respondent says ECC couldn't run a bath!!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Can we stop with the generalisations about the council please? Several of us here are council employees, and I can certainly run a bath. I just wouldn't be able to get out of it again while my hip is knackered.
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@Kirst - sorry nothing personal!! Not a sweeping generalisation then....
I will try to be more specific in future. Get well soon.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Kirst,when people talk about the council.
its the organisation(no pun intended) and not the people.
eg when the streets are a mess. Its down to ECC and not the poor sods who are most likely understaffed/mismanaged,who are 'responsible for actually doing the work.Posted 13 years ago # -
How exactly is it the council's fault that Edinburgh residents are such a bunch of mingers that they chuck their rubbish in the street? I noticed a lot of (presumably perfectly functioning) cathode ray tube televisions being left in the street round my way over the past year. Upgrades to flat screen monsters no doubt the cause. One drop of rain and they're ruined. Stuff like furniture usually gets scavenged by locals or unofficial rag and bone merchants who rove around in vans.
If you don't want something any more there is no need to put it out in the street or fly tip. Edinburgh Freegle is populated with folk who are looking for stuff, and will come and take it away.
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Must be historic, gardez loo and all that. Never moved on!! I don't think anyone wants cathode ray tube tellies any more so they are unlikely to be picked up by the roving scavengers. I am an old fashioned gal and believe that my 3-piece suite should last my lifetime or at least a great many years, and I cannot get over the number of folk who change their furniture to go with the colour scheme, which may be every couple of years, what is that all about? I like antiques, with a bit of class, and value. The planet is populated by people who are wastrels and believe in disposable everything, change your car every two or three years, all your furniture. To my mind if it works and serves the function it was intended for why get rid of it.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"Yerz Mum
via Rupert Hull
At the supermarket checkout recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right about one ...thing -- our generation didn't have the green thing in “Our” day. So what did we have back then…? After some reflection and soul-searching on "Our" day here's what I remembered we did have.... Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300HP vehicle every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our day. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Yorkshire. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked, instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical socket in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Pass it on so another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smarty-pants young person can add to this..."Posted 13 years ago # -
The streets of Glasgow were strewn with rubble when I was at the Science Museum on 04.01.12
Blown by the wind but it was a bit like Beirut in Govan.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"How exactly is it the council's fault that Edinburgh residents are such a bunch of mingers that they chuck their rubbish in the street? I noticed a lot of (presumably perfectly functioning) cathode ray tube televisions being left in the street round my way over the past year. Upgrades to flat screen monsters no doubt the cause. One drop of rain and they're ruined. Stuff like furniture usually gets scavenged by locals or unofficial rag and bone merchants who rove around in vans.
If you don't want something any more there is no need to put it out in the street or fly tip. Edinburgh Freegle is populated with folk who are looking for stuff, and will come and take it away. "
The longer I live, the more I think all councils should do is provide bins and empty them. If we the citizens choose to drop litter and scribble graffiti, we the citizens should have to live with the consequences. The council shouldn't have to pick up after us.
I put a telly on Freecycle a few months ago. Nobody wanted it.
Posted 13 years ago # -
You have a point there Kirst but I don't want to have to live with other people's litter strewn about the place. I regularly have crap thrown into my garden, bottles both plastic and glass, crisp packets etc, none of it mine and I do collect it and put it in the bin. A week never goes by without a pop bottle, minus lid, and some takeaway carton with fork being left by my fence next to the lamp-post on the pavement right outside my house. I know who the perpetrators are and have a hard enough time off the yoot, without going out there to tell them to take their crap home. I get heartily sick of the attitude of folk around here who just drop their wrappers etc even when their own household bin is feet away, because their parents have never told them to take their crap home. In fact the attitude that many of them have is that the scaffies would be out of a job if they did not foul the place up.
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