London:
The garbage sacks are stacked on the edge of the roads, roaming in the streets as “cats” cats in the form of mice, and a pungent smell of rotten waste fills the air. This disintegration is not from a small town in the third world country, but the second largest city in the United Kingdom, Birmingham.
Residents in Birmingham have tried strictly to get rid of the estimated 17,000 tonnes of waste, which has been strike by around 400 waste collectors last month. In the city of more than 1.1 million residents, a rare garbage truck trip of people runs into the road, their arms are full of rubbish.
With rubbing bags in the spring sun, mice, foxes and cats have started the crust through a growing pile of garbage, as many people in Birmingham feel that the city has reached a braking point. Rupest rubbing dunes have also attracted insects, magots and vermin.
The city video depicts huge mice on the streets in a broad daylight as garbage piles line the landscape.
England’s second largest city has become a city of mice!
City Service Workers have launched extensive attacks, converting England’s second largest city Birmingham into a rat nest and garbage dump.#Angland #Vest pic.twitter.com/CLW0E2Bing– Zakia ebrahimi (@zakyee391618) April 5, 2025
A video is also rounding on social media, which is shown running to save themselves as mice chase.
Without male mice used to run faster than mice-Garbage Out, Garbage Day is a two-way horror story! pic.twitter.com/S4JJRHDIB8
– Apna birmingham (@apnabirmingham) 4 April, 2025
strike
Collectors refusing are attacking the government’s government’s move to end a certain role within their ranks in Birmingham. Industrial action has been rubbing since January, but on March 11, an all-out strike increased. Only one faction of the city’s garbage collectors is still working with less than half of the number of garbage trucks to be commissioned.
Union UNITs representing the workers say that some employees employed by the council stand to lose 8,000 euros ($ 10,400) per year under the planned restructuring of the refusal service.
Wayne Bishop, a 59-year-old driver and a member of the union, told the AFP that he would lose his location under the shake-up and would deteriorate with about 600 euros per month. He said that the job was a fierce job and was eligible to pay appropriately.
“We can’t afford to our toilet,” he said. “We all go out of the intellect, we were out in the covid, we can’t just take the risk of losing it with the cost of losing it.”
The Birmingham City Council, however, disputes the rear -razor account of the union and insists that it has “proposed proper and appropriate” to the workers. The council’s website says that “no worker does not require any money” and staffing changes were important to modernize “becoming financially sustainable” and modernizing waste collection service.
City Councilor Mohammad Idres said that he was also concerned about Birmingham’s reputation.
The city is known for its industrial heritage and rich multicultural makeup – but she said the strike was “creating a very poor image worldwide.”
Rodent problem and health risk
Due to waste of waste on the roads, the city is infected with mice. Local people complain that rodents are entering their homes and cars, chewing through their precious goods, giving them a cost of thousands.
Mary Door, a resident of the city’s Balsal Heath area, said, “I am afraid to open the door in front of me, they are everywhere.”
“When you go in, they run out of the cars, they are going into the engine. They chew through the cable in my son’s car, spending it God knows that there is a road. I can’t walk my dog because they get out of the grass and piles of fuck. Once I shouted, ‘he said.
Another resident, Abid, said, “Ruckus is everywhere, mice everywhere … (they) are larger than cats.”
The residents also complain that pest-improved piles have affected their health.
“It’s scary – I am worried to my children,” 23 -year -old Abel Mihai said, who lives in the Saltley region of the city. Mihai told AFP that every time his three -year -old son goes out, “he vomits with the smell.”
Piles of garbage have also emerged as a danger of fire. “The second night there was a fire at the end of our road,” said Mihai.
This quarrel also plays in broad problems in the British society – from the funding of the local council to widespread inequality.
Residents of poor areas of the city in the Midlands region of England told the AFP that they feel neglected, and questioned whether the trouble gets spiral in the rich parts of the country.
Political smell
Garbage problem is now beginning to cause a political odor for the British Prime Minister Keer starrer.
Facked by the opposition in Parliament on Wednesday, he admitted that the situation in Birmingham was “completely unacceptable” – but insisted that his government would provide additional assistance and stand by the council, which is run by the starrer labor party.
The residents are tired of waiting, and some have taken cases into their hands.
On Wednesday, special waste truck travel on the road in Saltley was arranged by members of a community center, who contacted a local councilor for assistance.
26-year-old organizer Hubish Mohammad said that the Hatan Hall Group had helped hundreds of people to fuck at the temporary collection site, where the residents loaded their waste on employees’ employees by non-Hardali workers.
The staff said that he helped collect about 45 tonnes of waste in a single day.
Mohammed said, “It has been a graft, but we are taking care of the community here.” “We had to take the initiative.”