A community activist has called for residents to “wake up” after maintenance work revealed a huge haul of discarded rubbish along a busy main road.
Myles McCallum, treasurer of the Village of Lochee Community Partnership, shared a video of the “filthy” scene after workers removed shrubs and bushes from the High Street on Thursday.
The footage, taken by resident Paul Sullivan, shows a shocking collection of coffee cups, cans and plastic bags blowing in the wind after being discarded along the route.
Although the mess has since been cleared up by council workers, the video has been viewed nearly 3,000 times, with outraged residents warning the scene could have been a real health hazard.
Mr McCallum said littering is a “big problem” in Lochee and hoped the footage would shock people into taking more pride in their community.
“I think a lot of it has to do with people hanging around – there are lots of areas here that are filthy and just don’t seem to get cleaned up,” he said.
One member of the Facebook group, John Mulholland, condemned those dropping the litter but added: “It’s the council’s responsibility and duty to clean and maintain the streets and city – this council are failing their citizens.”
Local resident Isobel White said it was “just absolutely shocking” to see the state the street had been left in.
She added: All that rubbish has obviously been there a while to gather that amount. What are people thinking about just leaving their rubbish like that?
“The council should have had this cleaned up before now.”
Mr McCallum said he was grateful to the workers who cleaned up the space but warned many other areas in Lochee remain strewn in litter.
“I hope this will be a real wake up call for people living in the area,” he said.
“It shouldn’t have gotten to that stage in the first and I think it is really shocking to see people having no pride and just total disrespect for the space they’re living in.
“There’s no excuse – we want to see things cleaned up and to get people to take more responsibility.”
A spokesman for Dundee City Council said it will “look into this” but offered no further comment.
