A WOMAN has issued a desperate plea to Birmingham City Council over the sea of litter lining her neighbourhood’s streets.
The unnamed Brit was left horrified yesterday with the state of her residential road in the West Midlands city as piles of rubbish overflow on the pavements.
The entire street she lives on is covered end to end in discarded rubbish with the sheer volume of rubbish left nearly blocking off the pavement.
The video footage is filmed in a residential area of the city and shows piles of overflowing bin bags and litter left discarded and uncollected outside residents’ front doors.
The woman recording the footage pans the camera up and down the road to show the scale of the problem.
The entirety of the rest of the street is the same, with piles of rubbish stacked outside people’s houses as far as the eye can see.
The woman zooms in on one pile showing at least five bin bags left dumped on the pavement.
Clothes, wrappers, empty bottles and even kitchen appliances can be seen in amongst the pile with a mattress clearly visible a little further down the road.
Large on-screen text reads: “Birmingham Council what is going on please?”
The video ends as the woman pans away from the pile of rubbish to show the rest of the filthy road.
The footage was shared to social media yesterday with the caption: “I know they’ve got no funding but nah.”
The clip has received over 2,000 likes and more than 1,000 comments from users on social media left appalled at the state of the street – with opinions divided over who is to blame.
One user said: “Ask the council to refund council tax.”
Another added: “And they want to increase our council tax, don’t we already pay for these services or is it to keep on lining their leaders’ pockets?”
A third commented: “Neighbours should get together, hire transport and volunteer to sort it out. Can’t live like that. Someone needs to organise.”
Another wrote: “It’s not the council who throw their rubbish on the streets it’s the people in the houses who just expect it to be cleaned up.”
A fifth replied: “people blaming the council, there’s a bloody mattress out there. that video represents the people living there.”
