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Overflowing bins in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham in March 2025(Image: Jacob King\/PA Wire)<\/p>\nBirmingham City Council failed to meet its own bin collection and fly-tipping targets in the first three months of 2025Overflowing bins in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham in March 2025(Image: Jacob King\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n
Birmingham City Council\u2019s bin collection figures \u201ccompletely collapsed\u201d in the weeks before a major incident was declared over the strike, a new report has shown.<\/p>\n
It has now been more than 100 days since the Birmingham’s bin strike went all-out on March 11, a development which contributed to huge heaps of rubbish piling up across the city.<\/p>\n
The council<\/a> would later declare a major incident on the last day of the month and took action to clear an enormous backlog of waste in the following weeks.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong>Watch tense moment Birmingham council leader faces bins strike fury as man asks ‘would you’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A council performance report, covering the fourth quarter of 2024-25, has now highlighted how the local authority fell short of its own fly-tipping and bin collections targets between January 1 and March 31 this year.<\/p>\n It revealed the number of ‘reported missed bin collections per 100,000 collections scheduled’ had missed the quarterly target of 72 – it was instead 960 during this period.<\/p>\n This was also higher than the result of 356 in the third quarter of the year.<\/p>\n The report also showed that the percentage of fly-tipping incidents cleared by the street cleansing team within seven calendar days was 73 per cent.<\/p>\n This was one per cent lower compared to the third quarter of the year and failed to meet the council\u2019s quarter target of 95 per cent.<\/p>\n During a cabinet meeting this week, Conservative<\/a> group leader Councillor Robert Alden argued that bin collection figures had \u201ccompletely collapsed\u201d during the period from January to March.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is clearly a significant problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is being done behind the scenes, because I appreciate we\u2019re in a strike, to actually try and ensure when it\u2019s finally resolved, the service that exists at the end of it is actually able to meet the [council\u2019s] targets.\u201d<\/p>\n The council report acknowledged the impact of the industrial action and said the council declaring a major incident allowed it to provide an \u201cemergency response\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have implemented a range of mitigating actions to ensure we minimise the impact on citizens and the city as much as possible,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong>Temporary travellers sites plan in Birmingham pushed back as caravans pull up at parks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n This included deploying 60 per cent of its street cleansing teams to remove fly-tipping, securing mutual aid support from other local authorities, utilising HiGrab vehicles, extending opening hours at city tips and increasing collections at mobile refuse centres.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have also engaged external partners to provide caged tippers and crews to remove accumulated fly-tipped waste and deliver a targeted deep clean across the 15 most affected wards, helping to restore the city to a good level of cleanliness,\u201d the report continued.<\/p>\n Coun Majid Mahmood<\/a>, cabinet member for environment, also said during this week’s meeting that more household waste was being collected due the council being granted an injunction.<\/p>\n He added the local authority was now delivering one weekly collection service to residents and also undergoing a transformation of the waste service.<\/p>\n He said this would provide a service that \u201ctruly meets the expectations of Birmingham<\/a> residents\u201d.<\/p>\n![\"Robert](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750911313_253_0_JS326815537.jpg\")
Robert Alden, leader of the Conservatives at Birmingham City Council(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n![\"Cllr](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1_JS284825499.jpg\")
Cllr Majid Mahmood, cabinet member for transport and environment(Image: Martin O’Callaghan\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n