Cosa è successo dopo: vermi, ratti e crescente disperazione – un anno di sciopero dei bidoni di Birmingham
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/29/what-happened-next-maggots-rats-and-growing-despair-a-year-of-the-birmingham-bin-strike
di laredocronk
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Fun fact: this strike has lasted longer than the Gulf War and the Falklands war combined.
Lived here for 64 years but cannot read or write in English?!
> Shafaq Hussain, a community leader and youth worker in Small Heath, says it would be particularly hard to reintroduce recycling in his area, where issues have persisted for some time. “It took a long time for us to do a lot of educating in the community about recycling, about the distinction between the two bins – but it has been almost a year now without that. So the environmental impact is very messy,” he says.
How hard can it be to figure out 2 bins? I have 6 different types of outside bin and have never had any issues
I do wonder… Is it the council or the people who are at fault? I’d say both…
A fundamental failure of the state. Both that fella not speaking English and the strike/disruption risking public health lasting a year.
At least the dinner ladies and female teaching assistants got compensated to recognise how demanding and hazardous their jobs were.
Public services are a small price to pay.
I reckon they’ve scrapped recycling without admitting it. We’ve been back to general waste collections only for a year. If I was a bankrupt council, I’d have to admit that recycling is just a pure cost with no local return.