As rubbish piles up, tempers fray amid Birmingham bin strike
Pop-up household waste centres increasingly fraught and city at breaking point less than two weeks into stoppageWhen a council rubbish lorry arrived on a street in south Birmingham on Wednesday morning, the situation descended into chaos.Crowds of people arrived with wheelie bins crammed full of bin bags, and when staff became overwhelmed and the lorry filled up, frustrated residents began tipping their rubbish on to the street. Continue reading...

Pop-up household waste centres increasingly fraught and city at breaking point less than two weeks into stoppage
When a council rubbish lorry arrived on a street in south Birmingham on Wednesday morning, the situation descended into chaos.
Crowds of people arrived with wheelie bins crammed full of bin bags, and when staff became overwhelmed and the lorry filled up, frustrated residents began tipping their rubbish on to the street. Continue reading...