“Only half of our street are getting the weekly general waste service, they do part of the road and then disappear.<\/p>\n
“Everywhere you go, every road you go, there are black bags and rats are ripping them up everywhere. <\/p>\n
“It’s causing a health problem for everybody,” he said.<\/p>\n
Unite claims a growing number of agency staff are refusing to cross the picket lines of the striking workers because they are facing “unsustainable workloads” amid a “bullying” workplace culture at the council.<\/p>\n
The authority previously denied the allegations and said it did not “condone any actions which are contrary to legislation and good employment practice”.<\/p>\n
Since kerbside recycling stopped, Raymond McDonnell has been making multiple trips to try to get rid of his rubbish at depots.<\/p>\n
“My neighbours can’t manage it so I bring theirs down and I’ll come down later to bring more stuff, but what else are people supposed to do? I can see how it slips in with the general waste now and again because people want to get rid of it.”<\/p>\n
The amount of rubbish being sent to landfill by Birmingham City Council has doubled since bin strikes began, figures revealed in September.<\/p>\n
About 2.84% of rubbish was sent to landfill from 1 January to 30 June 2024, but rose during the same time this year to 5.8%. <\/p>\n
Over the same period, recycling rates fell from an already poor 22% to 13%.<\/p>\n
In a previous statement, the city council said it had extended opening hours at household recycling and mobile waste centres, in order to help residents recycle as much as possible.<\/p>\n
Mr McDonnell fears his efforts won’t be enough as Christmas approaches.<\/p>\n
“The waste is only going to get worse with cardboard boxes left on the street as we go into Christmas.<\/p>\n
“The kids will be happy but the rats will be happier. There’s so many people with [uncollected] recycling it’s ridiculous,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Only half of our street are getting the weekly general waste service, they do part of the road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-274022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}