Question about Edinburgh city?

Question

I am planning to relocate to Edinburgh. I would like to know what is really like regarding the litter. I know a few people consider it as clean city free of litter (it shows pretty clean in the photos as well) but I need a second opinion.

I wouldn't mind to be extremely clean but I hate to see rubbish everywhere and people dropping them in the middle of the streets. I hope it's not like that as the most of the people say!!!

Answer 1

I just moved from Edinburgh. Your friends are correct it is a very clean city. Obviously it is an old city so there is wear and tear. And years of poplution have turned certain things black but over all it is much cleaner than other UK cities such as London.

This is a great article from the Evening News about what the council is trying to do to clean up (the already clean) streets:

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topsto...

Hope that helps! Enjoy your stay!!

Answer 2

I dont know

Answer 3

In general, most visitors to the city appear to be satisfied with cleanliness standards. According

to the 2005-2006 Edinburgh Visitor Survey (Lynn Jones Research), 5% of domestic visitors and

7% of overseas visitors identified rubbish or cleanliness as something which needed to be

improved. In the equivalent survey in 2001-2002, visitors were asked whether they thought

Edinburgh was a dirty city. 7% said they agreed with this view and 1% strongly agreed,

whereas 65% disagreed and 14% strongly disagreed. (A further 12% had no views). 29.4However, littering appears to be more of a concern to local residents. A survey of over a

thousand residents carried out by MORI in 2004, for the biennial Edinburgh Survey, asked

whether rubbish and litter lying around in the home neighbourhood was a problem. 14% of

respondents thought it was a ‘very common’ problem while a further 30% said it was ‘common’.

Although these are clearly significant bodies of concern, the majority of respondents did not

perceive it to be a problem, with 33% saying that it was ‘fairly uncommon’ and 24% ‘very

uncommon’.

In an effort to measure street cleanliness systematically and objectively, in 2000 the City of

Edinburgh Council adopted a monitoring scheme devised by EnCams (formerly the Tidy Britain

Group). This scheme, known as the Cleanliness Index Monitoring System (CIMS), is a points

based system which surveys sample locations and awards scores based on the extent of littering.

Surveys are undertaken quarterly and are supervised independently by Keep Scotland Beautiful.

Sampling is based on 50 metre ‘transects’, covering 50% of all streets, parks, car parks and other

open spaces within the City Centre, and 10% of streets elsewhere in the city. You can read more of the results  with the help of the following link:

edinburgh.gov.uk/internet/Attachments/... Street cleanliness.pdf

Answer 4

There is nothing 'special' about Edinburgh in comparison with the rest of the UK in this respect. Some people discard rubbish in all large cities, or it blows from bins, skips and so on.  At night, an unfortunately high percentage of revellers (its a tourist town!) will discard food contaimners and drink holders wherever they choose. The Council does a fairly good job in the city centre, and daily or more often clears the most central blocks - although 'non-loose' items such as chewing gum and other street marking debris are largely ignored the moment you leave Princes Street. Another few blocks out and inconsiderate dog owners debris is left to be removed by the rain.

Singapore standards of cleanliness don't exist in the UK, the Council in Edinburgh throws huge resources at the issue, but UK society just doesn't in many sectors see littering as unacceptable so it is an uphill struggle for the Council who do a better job than in many cities.