{"id":415092,"date":"2025-09-11T06:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415092\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:17:11","slug":"birmingham-bin-strike-reaches-six-month-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415092\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham bin strike reaches six-month mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Strikes have marred the perspective of the city&#8217;published at 06:53 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>06:53 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a2be6efd-ecdd-4b85-aaa3-6a9a2d238907.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Josh Sandiford<\/strong><br \/>BBC News, West Midlands<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Neighbours Naomi and Rob standing next to each other and smiling. We can see there is an apartment complex behind them. Naomi is wearing a purple dress and a necklace with a cross on. Rob is wearing a white t-shirt with a skull and a bee on it.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/de97db34-749e-4eef-bfaa-00e7f15c9ee0.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"5708\" height=\"3211\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neighbours Naomi and Rob live in Aston say general collections there have been sporadic, but locals are managing the problem with tip runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Aston, Rob Brough, 56, said his general waste collections were sporadic, with locals managing through regular tip runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He and his neighbour Naomi Clooney, 50, showed the BBC videos of an enormous pile of rubbish at their apartment complex at the height of the strike in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, seagulls would regularly tear open bin bags, leaving a trail of rubbish for other wildlife to feast on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Clooney, who has been taking her recycling to Wales when visiting family, said she believed the situation was unacceptable when residents had faced consecutive council tax rises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It [has] marred the perspective of the city,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I had family over from Ireland and it was really quite embarrassing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Strikes have marred the perspective of the city&#8217;published at 06:53 British Summer Time 06:53 BST Josh SandifordBBC News,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-415092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115184210403388295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}