{"id":419639,"date":"2025-09-12T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419639\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:19:10","slug":"birmingham-woman-very-grateful-for-offers-of-help-with-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419639\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham woman ‘very grateful’ for offers of help with recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

She was helped by Adam Simcox, who heard Ms Boyce’s story and said: “I thought this lady was trying to do her very best to recycle, rather than piling it all in to be jumbled up with everything else.”<\/p>\n

He booked a slot at a nearby tip and arranged to pick up her recycling on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Lynne Brookes, who also offered to pick up her recycling, said: “Hat’s off to her for sticking to her principles and not putting it into the normal rubbish like most people.”<\/p>\n

“My father’s the same age, nobody should be living like that, it’s dangerous. She could fall, she could trip, it could set fire,” she added.<\/p>\n

Ms Boyce, who lives in the city, said she was “very, very grateful” and said she had not expected help because “people have their own lives to get on with and their own problems with their own rubbish”.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City Council announced last month<\/a> it was walking away from negotiations, while refuse workers who are members of Unite have voted to extend their walkout until next March.<\/p>\n

Bosses insist the city’s bin service needs transforming through vehicle and crew changes.<\/p>\n

But the union says it is a case of “brutal” council cuts, claiming up to 170 refuse workers face losing around \u00a38,000 a year.<\/p>\n

The union has now vowed to extend the industrial action, possibly beyond next March, if a deal is not struck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was helped by Adam Simcox, who heard Ms Boyce’s story and said: “I thought this lady was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419639","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\/115193889629993997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419639","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=419639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}