Birmingham is currently in the grip of an escalating crisis, while non-collected waste continues to accumulate in the streets of the city, causing the locals to live in a smelly nightmare rats.
With more than 17,000 tons of waste that the roads waste, a total strike of waste workers has changed parts of the city into a wasteland, and with the summer approaches, the situation does not show any signs of improvement.
Nearly 400 waste workers, employed by the Birmingham municipal council, walked away for an indefinite period on 11 March and protested against wages and conditions.
The strike has left the streets of the second largest city of the UK covered with waste, with regard to vermin, in particular rats that bloom in the dirt.
While councilors and emergency services are looking to manage the situation, a man forms the core of the battle of the city against an infection of rats that gets out of hand.
Will Timms, lovingly known as 'rat man' of Birmingham, has seen it all. As the owner of WJ Pest Solutions, Timms is often called upon to help with contamination that are exacerbated by the increasing piles of waste.
His phone rings from the hook and his workload has doubled since the BIN strike began, he confesses that he is 'absolutely crushed' to work non-stop after two and a half months.
Will Timms, lovingly known as 'rat man' of Birmingham, has seen it all
Timms, who usually manages one or two callouts a day, now processes no less than four or five, often to 170 miles a day about Birmingham
'There is a real sense of disbelief about the scale of what happens here. I've been doing this for 11 years and I've never seen anything like that, “he told the I -paper.
“The rats not only get bigger, but they also become more brutal, venture into people's houses and even destroy cars.”
Timms, who usually manages one or two callouts a day, now processes no less than four or five, often to 170 miles a day about Birmingham.
The circumstances in which he works are moving: flooding waste, dirty scents and an increasing number of rodents that his parties on thrown food away.
“The scent is in common – I was in a rattle track this morning and as soon as I got out of the van, I was hanging,” he says.
'You have dirty diapers over the entire floor, incontinence blocks. You can [rat] urine also in the air; It is like a strong ammonia. I thought, “How on earth can you live here?” It's devilish. '
Rats become huge and feed the wealth of thrown food on the street. Timms even reports that rats are now as large as small dogs, some grow to lengths of 22 inches.
Earlier this month, the population of Birmingham said that their advice was blamed for a swelling army of huge rats who report themselves in a growing stack of remaining waste.
Residents of the Midlands City said that constant BIN attacks, an increase in fly-tipping and HS2 construction work has led an invasion of annoying rats and mice because they remain rodents behind Wheelie bins and nest under car ponnets.
One local said they can't go a day without seeing a rat and the problem shot like a “embarrassing situation for a big city.”
Earlier this month, the population of Birmingham said that their advice was blamed for a swelling army of huge rats who report themselves in a growing stack of remaining waste
The Unite Union has warned that the disruption of baking in the city could stretch in the summer after waste workers had voted for expanding their strike mandate on the use of temporary work by the council to 'undermine' their industrial action. Displayed: Court Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, 6 February
Unite said that his members are confronted with the cutbacks of wage reductions after scrapping the role of waste collection and recycling officer, despite the voluntary acceptance of cutbacks on payment and conditions after the council bankruptcy. Displayed: Drews Lane in Washwood Heath, Birmingham on 26 February
It comes after earlier this month that the people of Birmingham said that their labor councils who were tied by money was the fault of a swelling army of huge rats that sweep themselves in a growing stack of remains. Shown: rats in the streets of Birmingham earlier this month
Residents of the Midlands City said that constant bin strikes, an increase in fly-tipping and HS2 construction work has led to an invasion of annoying rats and mice, because they continue to find rodents behind Wheelie Bins and nest under car tonets
Rats teasing the city are described by the locals as the size of 'small cats' and claim that their houses are being taken over by the vermin
Post on X, a resident claimed that his bins had not been emptied for 17 days and said he fears that a “public health crisis is looming.”
Craig Cooper, strategic director of city activities at Birmingham City Council, told BBC Radio West Midlands that still gathering 90 waste collection teams, at a total of 200.
He said that residents still have to turn off their bins and that crews would reach them when they could.
He said: 'We stopped leaving depots due to disruption, which is why the police are there and I am very grateful to the West Midlands police for the work they have done to let our employees continue their work normally if they have the right to do, but our goal is to collect as much as possible as we can.
'Put your remaining waste in the Wheelie trays, and it cannot be collected on the day because we prevent the depots from coming out, but if we can, we will get there and free it. We work around the clock to get there.
'Some residents have brought them to the tip, we have a number of mobile household locations that have been set up and continue to be set up.
“We will follow it while we go, but turn off your waste and we will go there.”
