The streets of Britain’s second city are choked with rubbish sacks, head high in some places, because of the lengthy dispute DARREN STAPLES/REUTERSEvery day looks like bin day in Birmingham. The trouble is, refuse collections are few and far between. The city has been in the grip of a strike by bin collectors since June and mountains of rotting rubbish bags litter the streets. Residents say that sporadic collections by agency staff drafted in by Birmingham city council can come at any hour and so households leave bins and bags on the pavements all the time. Rows of wheelie bins and refuse sacks are piled head high and in densely populated quarters the smell of decay catches in…

Source: The Times September 15, 2017 23:06 UTC