{"id":73571,"date":"2025-03-20T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73571"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:35:37","slug":"bin-strikes-spark-chaos-in-birmingham-moment-desperate-residents-swarm-a-bin-lorry-in-bid-to-offload-their-rotting-waste-in-city-plagued-by-rats-the-size-of-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/20\/bin-strikes-spark-chaos-in-birmingham-moment-desperate-residents-swarm-a-bin-lorry-in-bid-to-offload-their-rotting-waste-in-city-plagued-by-rats-the-size-of-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bin strikes spark chaos in Birmingham: Moment desperate residents swarm a bin lorry in bid to offload their rotting waste in city plagued by &#8216;rats the size of cats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/20\/12\/96392335-0-image-a-11_1742474652004.jpg\" alt=\"Bin strikes spark chaos in Birmingham: Moment desperate residents swarm a bin lorry in bid\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A waste collection in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-f291dc40-0585-11f0-a8fb-31e5be2bf91b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/birmingham\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Birmingham<\/a><\/span> descended into chaos as rubbish-laden residents swarmed a bin lorry amid ongoing strikes by refuse collectors, which have led to &#8216;rats becoming the size of cats.&#8217;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14519203\/Bin-strikes-spark-chaos-Birmingham-Moment-desperate-residents-swarm-bin-lorry-bid-offload-rotting-waste-city-plagued-rats-size-cats.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A waste collection in\u00a0Birmingham descended into chaos as rubbish-laden residents swarmed a bin lorry amid ongoing strikes by refuse collectors, which have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/refuse-birmingham.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73573,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73571\/revisions\/73573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}