But they must be able to smell it: a mountain of leaking bin bags, foul-smelling waste sacks, suppurating wheelie-bins and industrial waste carts full to overflowing. It’s a sickly whiff of what ...

Birmingham City Council has announced that 'with regret' it is intending to make redundant up to 76 bin workers behind the all out strike that has blighted the city. The tough action comes as the ...

Birmingham’s bin-strike woes escalated this week when police were called to a mobile waste collection service that became swarmed by locals desperate to get rid of their rubbish. In Moseley ...

Since indefinite strike action began on 11 March, we’ve had reports of rats as big as cats, residents swarming around bin lorries and an increase in fly-tipping in areas surrounding Birmingham.

Daily life in Birmingham amid an ongoing bin strike has become "tremendously difficult", residents said. Piles of bin bags have grown high on some city streets, as a pay dispute between workers ...

Outside, a butcher’s green bin has started to smell, while nearby a cairn of black bags sits atop a public waste container. While the dispute over waste management in the UK’s second city is a ...

With the introduction of the new green bins across the state, there is plenty of confusion surrounding the correct use of each bin. Red bin? Yellow bin? FOGO? It can all be a bit overwhelming.

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Make sure your bins are left out before 6:30am on collection day, at the front edge of your property or nominated collection point. You can get help to put your bins out if there is no one in the ...