Residents talk about how they are being impacted by the Birmingham bin strikes

Residents have expressed concerns over the growing amount of rubbish as the result of the Birmingham bin strikes.

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00:00So we're on the Crescent Road in Great Bar, Walsall on one side, Great Bar on the other.

00:07So we're out on the border here. Walsall have had their bins collected, but the residents of Great Bar haven't.

00:13So they were meant to be collected yesterday, they haven't been. As you can see, the bins are piling up outside the business.

00:19Our clothing, we cleaned it twice before, and now there's plenty more rubbish out there as well.

00:30If people get dirty there anyway, it doesn't affect our business as well.

00:34People think it's our rubbish, but it's not. We have our own contractors that take the rubbish away, like twice a week.

00:43It doesn't look nice at all. I've seen rubbish everywhere. It's affecting our business.

00:50So you've got your own contractors coming in to clean the bins, but have you seen people who live around here bringing their rubbish in?

00:57No, because we close at 10 o'clock, and they do afterwards.

01:05So why do you think it's overflowing if you've got your own guys coming in to clean the bins?

01:09It's not our rubbish. It's the residents. I've seen all the packaging in there. It's not our packaging.

01:17What do you think needs to be done then to stop this happening?

01:19It's the council. That's all I can say. It's the council, we don't have to do it at all.

01:23We pay our council taxes, we pay our rates, everything. So we don't know any other... That's all I can say.

01:39So we're with Linda and Graham, they're residents of the Walsall council borough here. So has it affected you doing the bin collections?

01:52No.

01:53No, not at all. But have you been affected seeing them with their chaos over there?

01:59No, not at all.

02:01The chaos is really...

02:03They must be collecting every week.

02:05Yeah.

02:06It's the same stuff.

02:07Some over there now, but there wasn't before.

02:09Yeah.

02:10So they were meant to be collected yesterday apparently.

02:12That's right.

02:13Some of the residents over there are quite angry that they haven't been yet. Do you think they are going to come at some point for them?

02:19Well, it'll be the first time since the strike started that they haven't been collected.

02:25Because if we can see from our window, when the vent comes...

02:29You can see it, yeah.

02:31They're not complaining about wheeling.

02:34Yeah.

02:35It's the truth now.

02:36Well, if we leave their wheeling behind...

02:40Because I don't know what's collected around the backs of the houses, you know, if they're not putting it out in the front,

02:45then that's snuck right in.

02:47It's going to attract more people.

02:49Yeah.

02:50So I don't know what goes.