Why uncollected garbage is piling up on the streets of UK's second-largest city

With streets overflowing with more than 17,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish, the UK’s second-largest city, Birmingham, is in a deep mess. Birmingham City Council has also declared a ‘major incident’, calling for tougher action to tackle the towers of garbage With streets overflowing with more than 17,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish, Birmingham has declared a ‘major incident’ Rats the size of cats, mountains of bin bags, and residents clashing over waste collection—this is now the grim reality in Birmingham, the UK’s second-largest city. With streets overflowing with more than 17,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish, the city has declared a ‘major incident’ and vowed to send out teams of street cleaners and fly-tip removers to tackle the chaos. “Birmingham council could easily resolve this dispute but instead it seems hellbent on imposing its plan of demotions and pay cuts at all costs,” Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, said in a statement on Monday. With rubbish piling up across the city, Birmingham City Council has declared a ‘major incident’ to tackle the waste crisis.