Bin collection 'collapse' sparked major incident

REPORT HIGHLIGHTS HOW LOCAL AUTHORITY FELL SHORT OF TARGETS

- ALEXANDER BROCK Local Democracy Reporter

BIN collection figures “completely collapsed” in Birmingham in the weeks before a major incident was declared over the city’s strike, a new report has shown.

It has now been more than 100 days since the Birmingham's bin strike went all-out on March 11, a development which contributed to huge heaps of rubbish piling up across the city.

The council declared a major incident on the last day of the month and took action to clear an enormous backlog of waste in the following weeks.

A council performance report, covering the fourth quarter of 2024-25, has now highlighted how the local authority fell short of its own fly-tipping and bin collections targets between January 1 and March 31 this year.

It revealed the number of reported missed bin collections per 100,000 collections scheduled had missed the quarterly target of 72. Instead it stood at 960 during this period.

This was also higher than the figure of 356 in the third quarter of the year.