Birmingham's bin chaos: rubbish piles up, rats run riot and the public pays the price
15 April 2025, 07:51
By Cllr Bobby Alden
Labour-run Birmingham City Council are in the midst of their third bin strike in the last 8 years. The impact of this Labour dispute has been devastating on the city.
Brummies and visitors face rubbish at every turn. 21,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish by the Council’s own metric.
In the first three months, Labour have suspended recycling collections, taken payments from residents for the garden waste collection service only to scrap that service, and halted bulky waste collections.
Currently the Council is simply trying to collect the residual waste.
To understand how the Labour Council........
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