Was dann geschah: Maden, Ratten und wachsende Verzweiflung – ein Jahr des Müllstreiks in Birmingham
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/29/what-happened-next-maggots-rats-and-growing-despair-a-year-of-the-birmingham-bin-strike
Von 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.
I do sympathize with both the residents and have solidarity with the refuse workers.
But one thing that sticks out to me is in nearly a year that one gentleman hasn’t worked out how to book a slot at the tip. Ignoring his English literacy, you’re telling me there’s no one in his family/neighbors/community who couldn’t go „I’ll book you in. Here’s your slot.“?
You’re also telling me the council hasn’t thought, oh wait we have a large multicultural community, not everyone can read and write in English maybe we should give instructions in other languages to try and encourage the community to use the tip?
Absolute madness.
I hope those dinner ladies who meant they couldn’t pay bin men properly any more are proud of themselves.
Pro-worker equal pay laws have meant that it’s illegal to pay bin workers more so they’re doing the pro-worker thing and striking. The result is piles of maggot infested rubbish. It’s like we’re becoming the Soviet State of Britain.
the results of the bin strikes are in keeping with the general aesthetic tbf
I cannot understand how the British came to accept this as normal.
There s no better sign the country is turning into a 3rd world shithole. Literally.
Labour Council Run City, and Labour PM Starmer could care less about Birmingham anyway, what a national embarrassment, and Birmingham is too