Community Services and Contact Details - quite lengthy but hopefully a useful reference point You can find below:
Your MSP
Your MP
Your MEP
Your CEC Councillors
Your Library
Your Post Offices
Health And Safety numbers (Gas Water Electricity)
Free Fire Checks
GP surgeries
Pharmacies Recycling / Reuse
Litter
Freecycle
Community Political Representation The Community Council is a non-party political body but as mentioned on the committee page and the Neighbourhood page we have several elected City of Edinburgh Councillors and then we have a local MSP Mike Pringle and are also represented at Westminster by MP Nigel Griffiths and then at Strasburg by several MEPs
Scottish Parliament - Link to Scottish Parliament homepage
Bruntsfield Sub Post Office, 1 Merchiston Place EH10 4NP
Dundee Post Office, 181 Dundee Street EH11 1BY
Health and Safety
In emergencies and only emergencies Fire,
Police, Ambulance - dial 999 Gas Emergency 0800 0400 007 Electricity 0845 2727 999 Scottish Water 0845 6008 855
Free
Fire Safety Checks
Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service offer FREE home safety
checks. To arrange a home visit call 080...
Free Crime Prevention Survey
Lothian
and Borders Police are happy to give your house the once over and advise on
security issues free of charge. To
arrange a survey call 0131 654 5512.
Lloyds Pharmacy 129 Bruntsfield Place Edinburgh EH10 4EQ
Paton & Finlay 177 Bruntsfield Place Edinburgh EH10 4DGM
NHS 24
For all out of hours health queries 08454 24 24 24
Ambulance Transport for hospital appointments
New arrangements in Lothian for booking ambulance transport. This is only provided to patients who have a medical or
mobility need. It is important that patients only use this service if
they have no other means of getting to hospital, or if their medical
condition determines it.
If you need non-emergency patient transport for a hospital appointment please contact :
Ambulance Booking Line on 0131 447 0434
Monday to Friday. 9.00am to 4.30pm
Royal Hospital for Sick Children - outwith our area but of interest to all parents
Click HERE to see the plans for re-provisioning of the Sick Kids.
NHS Lothian - Click HERE for a great deal of information about current happenings, consultations, reports, etc within the NHS.
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Litter
A local resident having got thoroughly fed up with seeing litter
spoil our lovely Edinburgh (and other places) resolved to do something about
it. To this end (in July 2003) she started an initiative called PAL - People Against
Litter. In a nutshell, a PAL commits to picking up just one piece of
litter per week (more if they wish but that is up to the individual to
decide) and asks someone else to do the same who in turn recruits another
and so on. As the number of 'PAL's increase, the less litter we all have to
live with.
Edinburgh City Council also have a litter response team which
can be called via environment dept on 0131 5...
ReduceReuseRecycle
Recycling
In Edinburgh the Council has made some provision for local recycling. In
tenement areas, which we have, communal recycling bins are available. In villa areas, which we also have, residents are provided with brown bins for garden
waste, blue boxes for tins, glass and paper, and red boxes for
cardboard. Green bins are for other household refuse which goes to landfill, but communal packaging bins do take plastic. Plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to decompose so all are urged to use 'bags for life' rather than single use carrier bags or better still good old cotton or other more sturdy shopping bags.
The City Council Waste Aware Scheme can be contacted at 0131 529 3030 or wasteaware@edinburgh.gov.uk. You can get replacement blue or red boxes or rain caps from them should you need it.
If you require new blue bags for paper they can be had from the library. What goes in which box?
The Red box is for
The Blue box is for
Clean flattened
Cardboard
Cardboard drinks cartons
Cereal boxes
Greetings cards and postcards
PLEASE no Plastics, Lids, Polystyrene or Styrofoam
Glass
Not
Cans
Not
Glass bottles and Glass jars
broken glass or light bulbs glass dishes or windowpanes
Aluminium, steel or tin cans Empty aerosols Clean aluminium foil
crisp packets or sweetwrappers
Within the box is a blue bag for
Newspapers,
Computer paper,
Magazines and all directories
No cardboard, envelopes, food wrappers or plastics.
They are also keen to accept textiles in the form of clothing, towels, clean sheets, and pairs of shoes but please no duvets or pillows.
Brown Bins
These bins are for garden waste and cut flowers. (Please not Rabbit bedding or other rubbish that blows into your garden) All other domestic vegetable foodstuff waste should be composted. The City Council provide very cheaply priced compost bins in several sizes if you have a garden. If you don't, a wormery is an alternative. There are many available online and just think of the reduced trips to the communal bins!
Recycle Low Wattage bulbs
Low Wattage bulbs should not be disposed of in your domestic waste bins.
Those of you who started using low wattage bulbs some years ago will
be finding them coming to the end of their life and the City Council
are looking into setting up recycling bins at some point this year at
all of the Community Recycling Centres. Meanwhile Ikea will recycle any
low wattage bulbs purchased from them.
Remember too that any strip lights can be taken to one of the Community Recycling Centres listed below.
Don't just put used batteries in the bin. As of February 2010 all shops selling batteries [except in very rare cases] should collect batteries for recycling. So PLEASE put old batteries aside and take then to a collection box on your next shopping trip.
Batteries must not be put in
normal domestic bins because of the toxic chemicals they contain, which
contaminate landfill sites.
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The City of Edinburgh Council is not collecting, for recycling, household batteries but that doesn't mean we should just dump them in the landfill collection. The
nearest CEC recycling site is at Sighthill (Bankhead Avenue, EH11 4EA). Your corner shop or supermarket is handier.
Please make use of these facilities and so encourage companies who can help us to recycle and spread the word.
Mobile Phones
Yes if you do not want to resell your 'last season' model which would be our first recommendation, even these should be recycled and envelopes are available from OXFAM or the Co-op who are working together to recycle those mobiles which no longer satisfy your needs.
Reuse
Even better than Recycle is Reuse. We all have items we no longer require but have plenty of life still in them. Charity shops will be happy to take things they can relatively easily sell but that doesn't cover it all. There is a group who offers an alternative: Freecycle now also Freegle
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of over 4,000 groups with more than 5,000,000
members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit
movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in
their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of
landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer. Membership is free. To sign up to the Edinburgh branch you need to join their Yahoo Group
You will be amazed at what is on offer and what is wanted. Possibly used primarily by students it is actually used by anyone wishing to keep stuff out of landfill. Give it a try.
Litter
A local resident having got thoroughly fed up with seeing litter
spoil our lovely Edinburgh (and other places) resolved to do something about
it. To this end (in July 2003) she started an initiative called PAL - People Against
Litter. In a nutshell, a PAL commits to picking up just one piece of
litter per week (more if they wish but that is up to the individual to
decide) and asks someone else to do the same who in turn recruits another
and so on. As the number of 'PAL's increase, the less litter we all have to
live with.