Bin collections collapse sparked 'major incident'

Report reveals scale of disaster sparked by ongoing city strikes

- ALEXANDER BROCK Local Democracy Reporter

BIRMINGHAM City Council's bin collection figures "completely collapsed" in the weeks before a major incident was declared over the 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 would later declare 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 - it was instead 960 during this period.