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Edinburgh residents have expressed concerns over an increase of dog waste bags being dumped, following The City of Edinburgh Council's announced reductions of bin collections across the city.

The current measures in place across the country to limit the spread of COVID-19 has seen services cut back across all areas, with as many people encouraged to stay at home as possible.

Earlier this week a reduced service of litter bin collections was rolled out in Edinburgh, as the public was urged by the council to dispose of their litter responsibly, "taking it home if bins are full- and cleaning up after dogs".

However reports have been seen on social media of dog walkers not following these guidelines and instead choosing to dump bags of their dogs waste along public parks and walkways.

One local woman took to Facebook today to share her disgust after seeing multiple bags on a walk:

"I counted 25 bags of dog poo along the A7 from Harvieston cemetery.

"It's never been that bad. Advice is not to use the public bins as they won't be emptied anytime soon- idiots are just leaving them rather than taking them home.

"They won't be picked up by the council for some time. No wonder we're on lockdown- so many selfish and ignorant people."

A host of people responded to the initial statement, sharing that they had also seen the same behaviour. One user commented that the day before she had "counted 39 (bags) with some hanging on trees", with another stating:

"Same goes for the people going through farmers fields up near Fushiebridge depot.

"Please be considerate of the countryside we have."

Current lockdown measures from the UK Government have enforced that people should stay at home and only leave their house once a day, for exercise, to shop for essentials or key workers traveling to and from work.

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