No end in sight for Birmingham bin strike after six months

Shannen Headley

BBC News, West Midlands

Phil Mackie

BBC Midlands Today

The BBC picture shows a street with a terrace with dark gray wheel boxes outside the houses. In the foreground, there is a large pile of garbage containing black bags and old carpet strips. — Unlictly garbage piles have become a normal landscape in some birmingham streets

Student Theo Charlton cannot believe in the “apocalypse” he saw outside the student residence in the second largest city of England.

With the smell of rotting wastes in the air, 21 -year -old child is worried whether the garbage from moving students will be collected.

Six months after the start of a thousand Strike action in Birmingham, people living in the city do not get away from him.

Pamela Pritchard from Great Barr said that he did not carry his recycling to the BBC from the “principle” from the local clue and kept it in his 68 -year -old house.

In more strike, green waste and recycling collections were suspended.

Birmingham Municipal Assembly, despite the dissolution of the dispute, 22.9 % Recycling Rate Except for Liverpool, the lowest level of any unitary authority in the country.

Members of the Union Union marched in January on the plans to reduce some roles as part of the Municipal Assembly’s attempts to solve equal wage obligations.

In March, an uncertain strike was announced in March and the agreement agreement agreement has not yet been reached.

Ms. Pritchard said she had collected the BBC recycling garbage and hidden it in the interior since the strike started.

Among the growing masses of properly stored cardboard, paper and blister packages, the strike will “learn to live with it” if the strike continues.

68 -year -old Pamela Pritchard has been hiding recycling in his house since garbage box strikes started

A woman who looks down in an orange T -shirt and beige pants and pointing to the folded cardboard pile and a corner of her house and pointing to paper and tablet blister packages. — 68 -year -old Pamela Pritchard has been hiding recycling in his house since garbage box strikes started

He said: “I’m not driving. In principle, I refuse to let my friends use their time to take my garbage to the tip, so I left him at home.

“I’ve always been a sharp recycling and I hate wasted sources.

“[If the strike continues] I will find it elsewhere, I will ask a friend in the hut – I will find a house for it. “

There was no recycling collection since the start of the All-Out Strike in March

The picture shows about 20 black garbage bags on a gray sidewalk against black metal fences. Behind it is green plants with purple and white flowers. — There was no recycling collection since the start of the All-Out Strike in March

Student housing center Mr. Charlton, BBC’ye students moved for the summer of the garbage mountains left behind, he said.

He said: “I was looking at everyone who moved out the other day and this was the amount of apocalypse [they left behind].

“People are not preparing to leave, they just throw too much.

The 21 -year -old boy said he could not reach a recycling point because he did not drive.

Theo Charlton (left) and Dan Savill (right) said that BBC students acting in Sellly Oak left ‘apocalypse’ stacks of garbage

The two men were standing in front of a brick house with a black door. The man on the left has long wavy brown hair, mustache and wears a blue -controlled shirt. The man on the right has short brown hair and wears a blue T -shirt. Both smile on the camera. — Theo Charlton (left) and Dan Savill (right) said that BBC students acting in Sellly Oak left ‘apocalypse’ stacks of garbage

The other student reiterated Savill concerns. The 20 -year -old child, who moved to the university for the last year, said that although the collections were “selective”, he is still trying to separate his recycling.

He also said that people put this garbage with collections of black garbage boxes because the recycling was not collected.

He continued: “There is a garbage that is not taken in both boxes. At this point, the priority should take a place. Ideally, recycling – but all general wastes should go first.”

After six months, the inhabitants are not clearer about when the strike will end

The picture shows a large full black garbage box stacked outside a house — After six months, the inhabitants are not clearer about when the strike will end

Izzy Knowles, a member of the Assembly, said that people living in apartments in Moseley have very few recycling facilities or have no recycling facilities.

“Recycling is fully full. It gets dirty. [Some] You don’t have cars, even if they go to the tip, they are not allowed as pedestrians. “

Liberal Democratic Assembly Member, the council’s mobile home waste centers recycling trucks and garden waste trucks should be organized, he said.