Clean it up!

READING about the rubbish in Dennistoun (Evening Times May 18), I’ve got a solution for John McInnes and the other owners and residents.

Clean the area yourselves!

Make use of the brush seen on the ground and put all that rubbish into the several available EMPTY bins.

I lived in a similar tenement block in Maryhill. The same steel bins in the midden and the brick housing area separating that area from the drying area and gardens.

All the residents made sure their waste was placed in the bins and lids put on correctly. If there was too much excess waste, we’d all take it up to Dawsholm Refuge and Recycling Centre. Rarely would the lids get damaged, filled with water or rust. If on occasion they did, we took the proper steps to have them replaced.

All bulk uplift should be reported for collection, it only takes a phone call and it’s gone.

Your area is a disgusting mess, a hazard to everyone for one simple reason. You and every other owner or tenant let it get this way and you will not lift a finger to do anything about it.

Sandra Montgomery, posted online

Rental problem

A LARGE part of the problem [about rubbish] is private rentals.

People are often not around long enough to care about their homes.

We no longer have permanent long term residents that look after the place. People come and go and don’t care because they have no attachment to the place they’re living in.

Another problem is upbringing. Many parents don’t teach their kids good manners and responsibility.

There has been a huge decline in standards for a couple of decades now.

Years ago you’d have got a clip round the ear for creating that mess and the tenants would clean the stairs and keep the place nice but not any more. Too much nanny state, ‘it’s not my job’ attitudes.

Carol Daly, posted online

Ban guns

IN relation to the story about the air gun amnesty (Evening Times May 18), would having a license for an air gun stop such human and animal abuse?

Why are these weapons in existence in the first place?

Air guns are used as a sport for killing wildlife - animals and birds. Stop the sale of all guns.

Maureen Rice, by email

Deadly lillies

READING about the cat that was rushed to the vet after eating lillies (Evening Times May 18), I thought it was common knowledge that lily pollen is poisonous.

It also stains everything it touches when it falls off the flower. I've always cut the stems holding the pollen off when the flowers open

Fraser Weir, posted online