Waste worry

No chance – they need to have their car expenses – along with all their other freebies which the Scottish taxpayer provides for them!

Auld Reekie

A step in the right direction for a change. Something that is actually good for both tourists and residents.

Dunnomuch

Let’s hope it’s used by the pupils of the wonderful new St Mary’s Music School when the atrocious High School hotel scheme is binned!

r woods

150 grand though... that could fill more than a few potholes.

Sparts

Just an excellent piece of urban restoration. Dead brilliant.

Danielrober

Well done, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust. What a worthwhile project and involving stonemason apprentices. Well done all.

Auld Cynic

Used to live on the Royal Crescent side of Calton Hill – took that route to university every weekday for years.

Anne Caird

Thank heavens the city fathers saw fit to repair and preserve these steps.

Audrey Ratter

Got to facilitate the movement of tourists.

John Whyte Council leaders have warned that a flagship target to ban the amount of waste going to landfill by 2021 is unlikely to be met.

What is it about Scots? “We cannae dae it?” In 2017 Wales had the second best recycling rates in Europe! Wales’ 72 per cent top rate has fallen several percentage points since then but an extra £50 million investment by the Welsh government has local authorities setting out again to raise the bar. Scotland’s local authorities will just have to devise more imaginative recycling policies like they have in the principality.

Samuelcoldstream Charge the companies producing the waste packaging in advance, let them pass that onto the customer. If it happens to every company at once then it’s a level playing field.

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