Birmingham City Council has insisted it is “making every effort” to resume recycling collections as the dispute impacting waste services rumbles on.
The local authority in charge of England’s second city said it had been “prioritising” general refuse collections from households “in recent weeks”.
Unite the Union ramped up industrial action over refuse-worker pay into an “all-out indefinite strike” from 11 March this year.
By the end of that month, the council had declared a major incident, with 17,000 tonnes of waste uncollected.
But in April, Unite warned of a “clear escalation of the dispute”.
The council has suspended green waste and recycling pick-ups to “concentrate on maintaining residual collections”.
It said this week: “We know this has impacted many residents, and we are making every effort to resume full services as soon as possible.
Birmingham City Council added that it had “significantly increased the number of deployed waste collection vehicles” and “these efforts are already helping to reduce the backlog across affected areas”.
