Glasgow lanes behind famous streets strewn with rubbish as union launches clean up campaign

A bid to clear the city-centre’s back streets of commercial waste has been launched by a Glasgow trade union in efforts to 'Reclaim Our Lanes.'

The GMB gathered this morning on Sauchiehall Lane, opposite the Griffin, calling on stricter enforcement to ensure shops, restaurants take aways and other businesses keep rubbish from recurring and have it lifted quickly.

Campaigners chose Sauchiehall Lane to show the amount of rubbish dumped in these back streets from a microwave to shopping crates and cardboard boxes left beside the industrial waste bins.

The union says that while some commercial operators now have contracts to lift commercial waste in the city-centre, they claim standards vary widely and there is too little supervision and enforcement.

Cleansing convenor Chris Mitchell s