“Complaints include fly-tipping, overflowing bins and infestation.'
Refuse workers said that some areas of Govanhill were ‘drowning in waste’, while the Local Democracy Reporting Service saw first-hand how streets were strewn with foul-smelling waste.spokesman said the situation was at least in part being caused by businesses and private landowners failing to properly dispose of their waste, and warned that enforcement action would be taken if they did not clean up their act.
The LDR service joined GMB convenor Chris Mitchell on a tour of Govanhill, which sits in the First Minister's constituency, to see just how bad the problem was. “We need more staff. Every year the Scottish Government releases funding to the local authorities across“We need a steady flow of employment into this service because if you don’t, you get a city which is now drowning in waste and I think the Scottish Government needs to take a walk in the shoes of these workers and come and look at the places we try to clean on a daily basis.
“Any business without a waste disposal contract will be given 14 days to get proper arrangements sorted out or face enforcement action.
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