Mountains of rubbish continue to pile up in Birmingham as fears grow strike that's caused 'rats the size of cats' to flood city could last until CHRISTMAS

Rotting rubbish is inactive piling up successful Birmingham contempt assembly claims that collections are backmost to normal.

Pictures amusement immense mounds of bin bags spilling retired implicit pavements successful England's 2nd city.

Refuse workers from the Unite national person been striking since March implicit Birmingham City Council's projected changes to roles and resulting wage cuts.

Striking unit person vowed to transportation connected concern enactment indefinitely unless demands are met, with immoderate believing it whitethorn beryllium ongoing until Christmas.

Birmingham City Council says it has cleared 100 per cent of the ample piles of discarded successful hot-spot areas and 85 per cent of rubbish from the remainder of the city.

But grim images amusement overflowing bins, divided rubbish bags and rotting nutrient strewn crossed residential streets.

Photographs taken successful Bordesley Green connected Monday amusement aged boxes and discarded dumped connected the pavements and roads.

Another changeable shows a reddish wheelie bin crammed with trash adjacent to bulging bin bags piled up connected the path.

Graham Marlow, 45, who lives successful the area, said: 'How the assembly tin support a consecutive look and accidental they person everything nether power is mad.

'They lone request to travel down from their ivory towers and person a look astatine the streets to cognize the metropolis is inactive waist heavy successful rubbish.

'My household are sick of it. I'm sick of it. I can't hold to permission this city. It's small wonderment radical present telephone Birmingham Scummy Brum.'

More pictures amusement fly-tipping is inactive plaguing the city, with aged beds, mattresses, store mannequins and adjacent an industrial-sized freezer being dumped connected the streets.

Other images amusement however residents person struggled to adjacent parkland their cars arsenic the mountains of rubbish swamps residential areas.

The bin onslaught has attracted worldwide attraction with shocking pictures of elephantine 'cat-sized' rats chasing assembly workers.

Disabled radical reliant connected wheelchairs person besides been trapped successful their homes by piles of rubbish dumped connected pavements and successful alleyways.

Opposition politicians person accused the Labour-led assembly of failing to extremity the dispute.

Birmingham's Conservative person councillor Robert Alden said: 'What we've seen sadly implicit the past 2 weeks, since nationalist enactment from the service has been withdrawn, [is that] bin lorries person not been going retired again.

'Indeed by the extremity of the week, hardly immoderate bin lorries were going retired and that's starring to much rubbish starting to physique up connected the streets.'

Khan, who is simply a Birmingham councillor and MP for Perry Barr, besides said thousands of tonnes of rubbish were inactive piling up connected the streets.

He added: 'You spot the vexation crossed the full city.

'What striking bin workers are saying is precise simple: 'We've got mortgages to pay, we've got children to raise.

'The outgo of surviving is going done the extortion and we conscionable privation a just deal.''

Earlier this week, crowds of supporters joined bin workers connected a 'mega picket' successful Birmingham, shutting down a assembly depot.

The radical fto disconnected flares and held up a elephantine inflatable rat - a motion to the rodents which person invaded the metropolis arsenic rubbish piles high.

Members of different unions, specified arsenic the bid drivers' national Aslef and Fire Brigades Union, travelled from crossed the UK to articulation the 200-strong march.

The picket unopen down Lifford Lane depot and recycling centre successful Kings Norton, delaying collections. 

Asked if she expected the onslaught to proceed into the summer, Unite determination serviceman Zoe Mayou said: 'If that's what we request to do, unfortunately... It's down to the assembly to travel up with a due connection and beryllium transparent.'

National Education Union wide caput Daniel Kebede told protesters the onslaught was a combat against 'a contention to the bottom' connected workers' wages, adding: 'We are lasting present with bin workers contiguous due to the fact that it could beryllium america tomorrow.'

A assembly spokesperson said: 'Before concern enactment began, our crews were collecting astir 1,000 to 1,100 tonnes of discarded per day.

'However, successful caller weeks, our crews person collected 1,500 to 1,700 tonnes of discarded each day, with a reduced team.

'This highlights the request for translation successful the work we supply to residents.'