No end in sight for Birmingham bin strike after six months

Shannon Headley

BBC News, West Midlands

Phil Mackie

BBC Midlands Today

Some Birmingham roads have become an unnatural piles unnaturally on the streets

The BBC picture shows a terraced road with dark brown wheelly compartments outside the houses. There is a large pile of rubbish with black bags and old carpet strips in the foreground — Some Birmingham roads have become an unnatural piles unnaturally on the streets

Students Theo Charlton cannot just believe the “apocalypse” pile of nonsense he has seen outside his student residence in the second largest city in the UK.

With the smell of thick rotting waste in the air, the 21 -year -old man is worried whether the nonsense will gather from the students going out.

Six months after the bin strike started in Birmingham, it is not getting away from the people living in the city.

Pamela Priyard of Great Barr told the BBC that she was taking her recycling to a local tip “out of principle”, 68 -year -old stored it inside her house.

In further strike action, Cerbuside Green waste and recycling collections have been suspended.

Birmingham City Council said it was committed to resolve the dispute despite this Recycling rate of 22.9 % With the exception of Liverpool, being the lowest in any unique authority in the country.

In January, members of the Unite Union moved out on a plan to downgrade some roles as part of the city council’s efforts to resolve their equal pay liabilities.

An all-out indefinite strike was announced in March and a deal to end industrial action has not yet reached.

Ms. Prichared told the BBC that she was collecting her recycling nonsense and keeping it indoors after the strike started.

In the rising piles of very neatly stored cardboard, papers and blister packs, she said that if the strike goes on at any time, she “learns to live with it”.

68 -year -old Pamela is recycling inside his house since the start of Pamela Puranard bin Strike

A woman in an orange T-shirt and unmatched trousers is looking down and pointing to a pile of papers and pill blister packs in a corner of her house and a pile of boxes. — 68 -year -old Pamela is recycling inside his house since the start of Pamela Puranard bin Strike

He said: “I don’t drive. On theory I refuse to use my time to use my time to use my time, so I left it at home.

“I have always been a curious recycler and I hate waste resources.

,[If the strike continues] I will find somewhere else, I will store it in the shed I will ask a friend – I will find a house for it. ,

There has been no recycling collection since the onset of all-out strikes in March

The image shows about 20 black bin bags on a gray pavement that pile up against a black metal fence. Behind it is green plants with purple and white flowers. — There has been no recycling collection since the onset of all-out strikes in March

In his hub for the student residence, Mr. Charlton told the BBC that when the students went out for summer, they were left behind in the mountain.

He said: “The second day I was looking at everyone and it was a nonsense [they left behind],

“People do not prepare to leave, they only dump so much goods. I thought it is going to be for age, it is not going to gather.”

The 21 -year -old said that, as he did not drive, he was unable to reach a recycling point.

Theo Charlton (left), and Dan Sawville (right) reported that BBC students have left ‘Apocalypti’ piles to get out of Seele Oak.

Two people stood with a black door, with a brick house. The man on the left has long wavy brown hair, a mustache and wearing a blue tested shirt. The man on the right has brown hair and is wearing a blue T-shirt. Both are smiling on camera. — Theo Charlton (left), and Dan Sawville (right) reported that BBC students have left ‘Apocalypti’ piles to get out of Seele Oak.

Fellow student Dan Sville resonated concerns. The 20 -year -old, who is going to the university for his final year, said he was still trying to separate his recycling, even though the collection was “selective”.

He also said that as the recycling was not being collected, people were putting that rubbish with black bin collection.

“Both compartments are not being rubbed. The priority should be taken somewhere at this point. Ideally recycling – but all normal waste must go first.”

After six months, it is not clear to the residents when the strike will end

The image shows a big pile of full black bin lines piled outside a house — After six months, it is not clear to the residents when the strike will end

Councilor Easy Nools said that people living in flats in Masle had no recycling facility.

“The recycling is completely filled. It is getting contaminated. [Some] There are no cars, even if they go to the tip that they are not allowed as pedestrians. ,

The Liberal Democrat Councilor said that the council should organize recycling trucks and garden waste trucks at mobile domestic waste centers.