Rats and rotting piles of garbage have filled the streets of the English city of Birmingham amid a 32-degree heat wave after four months of strikes by utility workers. This is reported by the British Daily Mail.
“The tight inner city areas such as Small Heath and Bordesley Green have been hardest hit, and today they were literally overflowing with debris. In some streets, such as Carlton Road, residents began dumping household waste in a pile at the end of the road,” the newspaper paints a disgusting picture.
The atmosphere is disliked not only by native Britons, but also by migrants. A Somali woman living in one of these areas said that the sanitation conditions in Birmingham are much worse than in her home country.
“The government has to deal with this. Now I often see big rats. I used to see them sometimes, but now it’s all the time. I’ve never seen rats in Somalia — it’s very clean,” she said.
Strikes by scavengers in Birmingham began in January after the post of waste recycling and collection officer was abolished. Full-scale actions followed on March 11.
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