Birmingham declares major incident as rubbish rots on streets
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Birmingham city council has declared a major incident and accused striking refuse collectors of preventing bin lorries from leaving its depots, causing 17,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish to pile up on the city’s streets.
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The council said that it had a contingency plan to collect rubbish from all properties in the city once a week but “actions on the picket line have prevented us from doing this”.
It said that the “daily blocking of our depots by pickets” has meant that it cannot get dustcarts out to collect waste from residents.
“Often, we can only get one vehicle out per hour,” the council said. “This has led to rising concerns of risks to public health and damage to our environment.”
Rubbish collectors in the city began intermittent striking in January over council plans to downgrade some staff and reduce their pay but on March 11 about 400 workers began an indefinite strike after the council used agency staff to carry out bin collections.
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