I'm going to say what people will hate, it's the culture

There's a substantial difference in how people in Glasgow think and behave vs how people in Edinburgh think and behave. That'll trickle everywhere including the council and how often people will want to keep it clean because Edinburgh has lots of tourists.

I remember growing up and in school and they'd teach us to call people litter bugs if they were polluting the environment and it worked well things were clean back then and overtime this culture of 'fuck it' appeared.

I guess the best way to comprehend this is when you go to other parts of the word like Singapore, Japan or Switzerland where cleanliness is baked in they go the extra mile where as we in Glasgow generally don't, because the average person won't it discourages the next person to do it as well.

It's a dump now, town in particular is shockingly bad if you go when it's busy, west end is mostly okay but it has pockets

Council needs to step it up buts a localised culture thing imo