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Garbage Strike Leaves Rotting Trash Piling Up in Major British City
A pay strike by garbage collectors in Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, has left 17,000 tons of rotting trash on its streets, raising public health concerns.
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“The worst thing I’ve seen is rats all over the place now. Food obviously, there’s food left there, and with the temperature increasing, it started smelling, you know.” “Basically, there’s lots of trash at the back so they can’t go to play around. We’ve got a trampoline at the back, but every time my son goes at the back, he vomits about the smell. So it’s really hard for my kids to go and play around.” “We cannot go in the garden because there’s a lot of trash around us.”
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