Refuse workers who are members of the Unite union launched an all-out strike last month in a dispute over pay and jobs, which has led to increasing concerns over public health.
Lydia Nirwan, owner of Manicured beauty salon in Northfield, returned rubbish to people she caught on CCTV footage dumping waste in her skip.
Lydia Nirwan said she found a bag full of needles dumped in her skip (Photo: Supplied)Hours after it arrived on 24 March, Ms Nirwan spotted a man dumping several black bin bags of rubbish and cardboard boxes into it.
“I saw the footage at, I think it was one o’clock in the morning, was really angry, posted it on Facebook and then wrote my little paragraph with it.”
“Me and my dad actually went through the bin bags…it was full of needles and loads of like skin wipes as well,” she said.
“It’s really dangerous. I could have cut myself when I was rummaging through those bags.”
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On another occasion, while taking a client’s payment, Ms Nirwan saw a teenager who appeared to have been directed by an adult he was with to drop a bag of rubbish in the skip.
“He just said, ‘Oh, I thought it was a public skip’. I’ve never heard of a public skip in my life, to be honest,” she said.
Ms Nirwan said: “She’d purposely drove past and drove on to the shop front and got her rubbish out of her car boot to then dump it in my skip. And she’d ripped her address off the box, ripped up any letters with her address in there, but had left her NHS prescription.
‘It’s not giving Birmingham a good name’
Susan Clothier, who lives in neighbouring Sandwell, believes the strike is the reason why someone threw their household rubbish in her garden waste bin.
“I sorted it and put it into the right places in my dustbin, but it must have been somebody from Birmingham who just wanted to get rid of a dustbin load of rubbish.”
Ms Nirwan pays £150 for around 50 council issued bin bags and collection but says during the strike action she and other neighbouring businesses, including a café, have gone without their rubbish collected for weeks, at times.
She said feels disappointed by the police, public and council response to the industrial action.
“It’s discouraging. It’s not nice. It’s not giving Birmingham a good look or a good name.”
Birmingham Council was contacted for comment.
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