It has been a busy week of action in West Pilton, where our housing team have been working with commercial partners, tenants and local school children to spring clean estates.
After a build up of flytipping and littering, it was time to call in the skips and work together to help the community tackle problem area hot spots.
These before and after photos and our video of the clear up show the huge amount of hard work which was involved. Skips were collected over four days at West Pilton Crossway, Ferry Road Drive, West Pilton Park and Ferry Road Avenue.
In response to help from little litter pickers from local schools, 1,000 Easter eggs will be shared out through West Pilton catchment schools, generously donated by ISS UK cleaning services and idverde UK grounds maintenance.
Councillor Jane Meagher, Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work Convener, said:
“It really has been a massive clean-up operation and I’d like to thank everybody who pitched in. A lot of hard work has been put in by many different people and a massive difference has been made. A lot of the rubbish was sadly a result of flytipping, which is always disappointing. It has been an issue in the area for some time and I think a lot of people will appreciate the efforts which have been made to sort it out. Let’s hope the estate can stay cleaner and greener for some time.”
Designed to promote community spirit and help commercial partners of the council to add financial and social value that benefit local people, the events were coordinated by our housing operations team supported by colleagues from waste and cleansing and schools.
We’d like to thank the following organisations for giving up their valuable time and resources to help us with waste collection, weeding, litter picking and equipment to help ensure a week of success:
ABM UK cleaning services
Belac Group Ltd specialist construction
Biffa PLC waste management
Changeworks energy efficiency
Idverde UK grounds maintenance
ISS UK cleaning services
NWH Group Trade Waste Collection & Recycling Services
Pertemps Edinburgh jobs
Ross Quality Control Ltd building supervisors
ISS UK cleaning services
Idverde UK grounds maintenance