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Edinburgh Live
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Lee Dalgetty

Grim photos show Edinburgh streets littered with feathers a week after Harry Styles gig

Edinburgh's streets remain littered with neon feathers, a week after Harry Styles performed twice in the capital.

Footage filmed in the city has shown piles of the feathers, clumped together on the pavement. Posted to TikTok, the video has thousands of likes and dozens of comments.

Fans wear feather boas and cowboy hats to Harrys gigs, after he became synonymous with both items. Unfortunately many of the plastic feathers take a very long time to biodegrade, and easily shed from the boas.

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While some locals were thrilled that the star made an appearance in the city, others have not been best pleased about the mess it has left behind. Beth Miller, who posted the footage to social media, captioned it: "Post Harry Edinburgh is looking rough."

Another user commented: "It's so bad! i went to Murrayfield three days after to see Bruce Springsteen and the feathers were everywhere.

Another agreed: "I started saying to my mum that we didn't need Google Maps, just follow the feathers."

A third said: "There were pink feathers on my street, and I'm like 60 miles away."

This comes after a local resident, Robbie Calvert, spoke to Edinburgh Live about the issue. Robbie, 35, said he opened his front door on June 1 to find feathers scattered around his neighbourhood.

Passionate about the environment, Robbie said he feels 'upset' and 'frustrated' over the clean-up operation after the events.

He said: "I just feel really upset about it. Over August the clean up is brilliant but with these smaller events, it just seems unregulated and there is no plan of action. These feathers are hard to clean up too and they're being blown everywhere, which makes them harder to clean up but they will have a huge effect on the environment once they get into the water and our green spaces.

"It can harm wildlife and if things like this keep going without a clean-up plan in place, it could turn into an environmental crisis for animals and people. It's sad."

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