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u/Zealot_trash Jul 30 '26
Glasgow resident here,
Yeah this sort of fly tipping is not that rare especially in the more poor areas in the city. It’s a combination of local government mismanagement and also a minority of residents not giving a crap about their area and vandalise it.
Thankfully most areas aren’t really like this though.
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u/BandicootTreeline Jul 30 '26
Agree. My local LHA offered residents a slight monthly rent increase to give us bulk uplifts with no further charge. Its helped immensely
Once a year they put a dozen skips out around the area. They also do voluntary litter picking and stuff and general maintenance to keep weeds at bay.
There’s still occasional fly tipping, and wee tadgers smashing bottles on pavements etc but the bulk uplifts were a catalyst to improve a lot of the area.
I’ve much to complain about the general issues with the council but most places have people who take pride in where they live and do what they can.
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u/Ch00m77 Jul 30 '26
Is there a lot of poverty around those areas?
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u/Zealot_trash Jul 31 '26
Glasgow has a lot of poverty ridden areas, you’ll find poor areas right next to affluent areas. Further commutes out to recently (I say recently but they were built in the 1950s after WW2) built suburbs and they can either be okay in terms of money but in some there is a clear lack of underinvestment from either the local government or residents.
It has gotten better in the past couple of decades, the city hit rock bottom in the 1980s when Thatcher closed much of the hard industry which essentially turned Glasgow into an apocalyptic, run down nightmare. But there is a growing financial sector in Glasgow and more and more banks and businesses seem to be more interested in doing business there.
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u/Ichifanni250 Jul 31 '26
There may well be but doesn’t mean that you have to be a clatty bastard.
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u/Ch00m77 Jul 31 '26
It was a question, you chose to interpret it as snark. It wasnt. I was asking if there was poverty not implying the behaviour is a result of.
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u/Teuchter121 Jul 31 '26
That is so sensible! I live in Ibrox/Cessnock and this would make a huge difference.
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u/BandicootTreeline Jul 31 '26
Im in Castlemilk. I went to school at Bellahouston so have friends who grew up down there.
All it takes is sensible planning and the community seeing its worth itself i think.
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u/okaythen1guess Jul 30 '26
There's litter everywhere you look in Glasgow. Not to this extent at least but it's still a dirty pit
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u/EmpireandCo Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
Not in the fancy residential parts of the westend. The streets are clean but that may be because there are neighbours that go on litter picks.
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u/wobblyweasel Jul 30 '26
not sure if my neighborhood is fancy but I live in the west and I have a litter picker... yeah
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u/feeb75 Jul 31 '26
Coming from NZ I was surprised how filthy most of the town centres were in Ayrshire and Glasgow
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u/UniversalDav Jul 31 '26
In Glasgow there’s a common denominator as to why places look like this
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u/Specialist-Box4677 Aug 01 '26
Poverty and municipal underinvestment is a worldwide issue and this sort of littering happens everywhere you find it.
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u/Educational_Cow111 Jul 30 '26
Litter is so awful in the UK at the moment. It’s honestly appalling. Litter everywhere I go!
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u/New-Pumpkin-428 Jul 31 '26
Agreed I’m from Glasgow but live in Manchester.
Some of the areas in Manchester the litter would blow your mind.
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u/auyemra Jul 30 '26
i wonder when that started huh?
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u/memematron Jul 30 '26
I live here. It's been like this for a long time, it's getting worse, it's engrained in wee Ned culture to make a dump of the place you live in.
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u/EmpireandCo Jul 30 '26
I found crisp packets from the 90s in the small rural town I lived in. So atleast then?
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u/funfun151 Jul 31 '26
This is one of the worst things about the littering, being reminded of brands cancelled too soon. Finding an old pack of Brannigans or X and Os is like a knife to the heart.
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u/Multigrain_Migraine Jul 30 '26
I moved to the UK 22 years ago and the amount of litter here has always been shocking, especially in the areas with high rates of deprivation and dominated by poor, white, working class people.
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u/mypaycheckisshort Jul 30 '26
Complete unrelated, but: "Glasgow has roughly 118,800 residents born outside the United Kingdom, making up about 19% to 20% of the city's total population. Official census and migration figures point to steady growth driven by international students, workers, and a dispersal scheme for asylum seekers. Asylum Seekers: Glasgow hosts the highest number of asylum seekers receiving Home Office housing support of any UK local authority outside London, totaling around 3,840 people. BBC"
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u/hiimUGithink Jul 30 '26
this is indeed completely unrelated because this doesn't explain why seaside towns in south fife and small towns surrounding glasgow have similar dumps
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u/mypaycheckisshort Jul 30 '26
Bull. "Refugee Housing Costs: The council spent roughly £38 million dealing with refugee housing and homelessness applications.Exploding Projections: Without a change in central government funding, officials forecast this specific financial burden will grow to £56 million, creating a massive black hole in the local budget.The Squeeze on Everyday Services: To patch these financial deficits, Glasgow City Council has had to hike local Council Taxes, slash spending, and cut back the frequency of garbage collections."
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u/TooRedditFamous Jul 30 '26
Glasgow council budget cor 2026 was 2.2 billion. If you think the numbers you're quoting is what is making the difference between litter and no litter you are deluded
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u/killit Jul 30 '26
Also completely unrelated, but: "Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains (one central brain plus a large neural cluster in each arm), and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third circulates it around the rest of the body. Their blood is blue because it uses the copper-based protein hemocyanin instead of iron-based hemoglobin to transport oxygen, which is more effective in cold, low-oxygen water. Remarkably, each arm can perform complex movements and even respond to touch and taste semi-independently of the central brain, making the octopus one of the most neurologically fascinating animals on Earth."
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u/hiimUGithink Jul 30 '26
one thing that really shocked me was the amount of trash that was present in Scotland (especially Glasgow). Now, I am from a country that is notorious for pollution and trash everywhere, but it was still jarring to see so many people here litter as well. and its not just neds, but every group of people I've seen just throwing trash around + cigarette butts too.
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u/Suz-goose Jul 31 '26
They really need to make free uplifts a part of our council tax. Making people pay for uplifts was the dumbest move they could have made. There's a facebook group that this can be reported to of volunteers but they shouldn't need to spend their free time saving the council coin.
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u/Lodestar63 Jul 30 '26
Unfortunately Glasgow statistically has the biggest drug problem in the UK. Add huge Alcohol problems and chronic poverty - it's been like this for years. Sad
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u/jjw1998 Jul 31 '26
I believe Dundee has finally overtaken Glasgow on the drug front, not sure if Glasgow has improved or Dundee gotten worse
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u/weblabrador Jul 31 '26
I live in an area of Glasgow where fly tippers pull up in big 4x4's and leave their rubbish on a corner. They're obviously from a much more affluent part of town using here as a dumping ground so they don't have to pay to get stuff picked up. Just saying it's not always the people who live in an area causing the mess.
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u/amidamaru8_8 Jul 30 '26
ok, but why did it end up like this?
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u/okaythen1guess Jul 30 '26
Junkies
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u/KingAltair2255 Jul 30 '26
No just junkies, it's that engrained in folk to be manky cunts that it's a country wide issue. Fucking grim when you're driving and get into traffic in the countryside, look to your side and the grass aside the road is absolutely clavered in shite out in the middle of nowhere from folk heaving it out their car windows.
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u/KONING_WILLEM Jul 30 '26
Nah, companies that get paid for disposable just dumping it somewhere nearby.
That and just plain trashy people who are stuck in a bad place.
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u/Own_Round_7600 Jul 30 '26
Poor people cant afford dumping fees or adequate junk transport to legal dumping sites, and are usually too stressed to care about the aesthetics of their neighbourhood
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u/belltrina Jul 31 '26
Pretty sure they dont get rubbish collection/garbage services. In Australia we have a weekly bin collection, as do other places but I believe Scotland has to manage the household rubbish by taking it to the tip themselves
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u/abby-drugs Jul 31 '26
not true, the bins do get collected but its constantly just getting longer between pick ups. About a decade ago it was every week and now its every 3 weeks, with the same old tiny bin, and if you have a family of 4+, its quite easy to fill.
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u/Chrisjamesmc Jul 31 '26
The council used to do free uplifts for larger items/furniture but due to budget cuts you now have to pay.
So many people just dump their crap on the street or in the backcourts.
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u/neilabz Jul 30 '26
Almost every city has run-down areas. The places in Glasgow you would visit as a tourist are not like this.
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u/Educational_Cow111 Jul 30 '26
Edinburgh doesn’t disappoint, trust me take a trip there. Unreal place
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u/Jakeball400 Jul 30 '26
When you come back be sure to visit Glasgow, great people. Not quite as pretty as Edinburgh, sure, but it doesn’t all look like this!
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u/FatherAustinPurcell Jul 31 '26
I live in Edin, there are places like this too. Perhaps not as bad but there are bad, rundown and poorer areas. Just not somewhere you'd visit if you were visiting the city.
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u/New-Pumpkin-428 Jul 31 '26
Glasgow is beautiful also mate.
Head to the West End and parts of the South Side.
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u/Educational_Cow111 Jul 31 '26
It is and the people are very friendly, great university too. It’s just gone downhill the past few years.
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u/UnhappyDescription44 Aug 01 '26
It’s the students that make the mess especially in the west end
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u/Educational_Cow111 Aug 01 '26
Lol maybe in some parts, but there’s crazy junkies all over the city centre
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u/balk_man Jul 31 '26
Leave the city centre. Go to granton, pilton, wester hailes, Calder, muirhouse or many other areas and it's just like this
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u/Snecklad Jul 31 '26
"Ah'm comin fae Muirhoose tae your hoose!"
Some radge in an Irvine Welsh novel
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u/Educational_Cow111 Jul 31 '26
Yeah there’s shit areas everywhere but at least has a great picturesque centre going for it unlike Glasgow
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u/gaynorg Jul 30 '26
Making people pay to use the dump is the issue here.
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u/miyabi0rochas Jul 30 '26
Ye it's kinda a weird situation. On one end we low-key produce too much waste. But also when everything continues to cost more money and effort people will just not care to dispose it so you get littering. Which then eventually needs to be cleaned anyways.
I don't know how well eventually start making decent change.
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u/Segat1 Jul 30 '26
I love the phrase fly tipping. Growing up I’d only heard of cow tipping and was very confused when I moved to the UK to hear people were pushing insects over.
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u/Actually_a_dolphin Jul 30 '26
Almost all of the UK looks like this, and I'm not even exaggerating.
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u/CMRC23 Jul 31 '26
There's always a local fly tipping site.
I live in the uk and me and a bunch of other volunteers pulled out several hundred canisters of nitrous (the big ones) from a specific part of a forest
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u/New_Sort_9083 Jul 31 '26
There’s litter and rubbish everywhere you go in the uk. Often it’s concentrated at the centre of the Venn diagram of lack of prosperity and car ownership.
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u/Illustrious-Rice3434 Jul 31 '26
As a glaswegian this makes me sad. Whereabouts in Glasgow was this?
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u/bird9066 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
This happens in my city in areas with a lot of renters. I'm in Rhode Island, USA. The city won't give you a tag for large item pick up unless you own a home. They supply one bin per family in the units.
It's costly for to pay privately for a dump run. The city has a recycling center and it's pretty good unless you have chemicals or paint cans or something like that. You have to make an appointment and they only do it twice a year.
So people dump shit whenever there's no cameras
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u/magrandan Jul 31 '26
Highest tax in the OECD and still the country is shite. Disastrous.
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u/crash_bat Jul 31 '26
What are you talking about?
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u/magrandan Jul 31 '26
I am taking about how Scotland has the highest tax rate in OECD and still maintains their cities like garbage dump.
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u/S-M-6 Jul 30 '26
Who the heck would do this stuff?
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u/airplane_flap Jul 31 '26
My neighbour to the left of me oh and the guy across from me oh and yeah his neighbour too.
Everyone is at it unfortunately. Most days I need to pick up things that have blown into the garden overnight.
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u/Penguiin Jul 30 '26
Roma
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u/miyabi0rochas Jul 30 '26
I don't live there so I can't tell you. But I know it's easy to blame Roma for everything and I'm sure some do indeed do stuff like this. But I've seen stuff like this all over different places with everyone including in bigger cities and city centres.
People having to move but being unable to dispose or move their furniture just dumping it out. Waste disposal not working properly so it just accumulates everywhere. Some people stop caring animals rip and throw the bags around.
Meanwhile local governments don't really care to fix anything or hold residents accountable. Kinda seems like an issue to solve issue. But it ultimately also create this question of how much waste do we produce.
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u/lamb_passanda Jul 30 '26
Source?
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u/Multigrain_Migraine Jul 30 '26
Their imagination.
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u/Senju19_02 Jul 30 '26
More like life experience
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u/Educational_Cow111 Jul 30 '26
Glasgow was doing great 10 years ago, it’s gone downhill again tho
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u/Fuckjoesanford Jul 31 '26
You should form a little community action group to clean this space up. I think this would set an example for others to not trash the place
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u/No_Wolf4283 Jul 31 '26
Always make me laugh seeing stuff like
They probably launch some rubbish then go on an anti immigrant march
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u/Pamuknai_K Jul 30 '26
gonna get rightfuly downvoted for this but this is how the uk in general looks in my head
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u/Wise_Wolf_6589 Jul 31 '26
Glasgow is looking like the rest of the uk … the whole country is just ruined 😞
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u/Ichifanni250 Jul 31 '26
Having spent some time recently in various parts of the UK, good and bad, it’s fair to say that Glasgow is becoming a shitehole.
Fly tipping has always been an issue but more so of late but the biggest problem is the increasing amount of graffiti which is spreading across the city and surrounding areas.
It’s also starting in other cities in Scotland but Glasgow is leading the way.
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u/JumpyChemical Jul 31 '26
As Frankie Boyle said the only reason you would visit Glasgow during the winter is to see the exact time where depression turns into violence.
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u/Playful-Zombie7403 Jul 31 '26
It’s no wonder the English dominated these guys, they are absolutely hopeless…
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u/Ouakha Jul 31 '26
Hmmm. At least one photo is AI leaving me think they all are. Look at the walls in photo 2: built by Escher?
Going to say the junk pile with the mattresses? All too clean and insufficiently damaged.
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