Is it just round my way or does Leeds stink of rubbish. Our street is bin bag alley and full of flies. Won't be long before nature calls in our little four legged friends to help out with the garbage disposal.

The council wrote to us telling us the binmen are going on strike and they would ensure that disruption was kept to a minimum....I thought they'd get in some contractors or get off their fat management booties and start shifting bin bags themselves, but no they are sitting smugly on their savings by not paying the binmens wages, and looking forwards to their final salary pension schemes.

I couldn't give a toss about how disappointed the council are that the binmen have chosen to undertake this disruptive action in the face of the council's efficiency drive to make the service run better and save council tax payers money, at the end of the day they take our council tax to provide a service, if their own binmen aren't willing to do it then they better find a way to persuade them to or pay someone else to. Letting the rubbish build up in teh streets is just going to turn this city into the third world, before long people will start chucking it in parks, in the city centre, on the town hall steps etc

My mate has been taking away my rubbish on his lunch hour. No problems for moi.

Unlucky.

Just do what I do, dump all your rubbish on your bedroom floor.

Who said solidarity was dead in the union movement

Ive heard Leeds City Council are sending to a 3 world country





.....street partys in St Helens this weekend

Can i dump our black bins in your room then?

He's a caretaker.

You could but you wouldn't be able to kip over anymore

I'll ask Sarah im sure she wont mind..

Had my bins empted as usually this week, can see what all the fuss is about

The scabs must be on the job in LS16.
They aren't in LS4

On LS28
The Rubbish around here isn’t great
I guess it’s just out fate
How long will we have to wait

Brap brap brap

Our bins have been emptied on time for two weeks running now.

I do find it amusing however that young people have no experience of public service workers striking - you should have been around during the last few months of Callaghans government or for the full monty, Ted Heaths rule of the early 70s

Thank god we live on the border and ours is still picked up. Having said that people at work are been crafty and bring bits and bobs of rubbish to work to dump

I was on holiday last week and the news coverage featured the striking binmen in Leeds .... It was great to see so many Leeds shirts, whilst I was so far from LS6 !

I could've sworn they said they we're getting agency staff in to do the job? Still not seen them round the streets of Swarcliffe.

You're so old dude.

2 black bin and 1 green bin collection missed in Farsley now its getting smelly.

I am ancient, and full of wisdom.

Most of it useless.

We got a letter saying put your bins out as normal leave them until 6 p.m and they might show up if they dont take them back in

Thats a useful letter... I've seen (and nearly ran over) some bin men in Harehills today. Making their way upto the mighty SWC?

I'm a jack of all trades, master of none.

The smell around Leeds city centre at the moment kind of reminds me of Naples.

Are they on strike in other cities? Cos Manchester f-cking ponged on Saturday.

Try being covered by Leeds City Council but having a WF postcode. We are the land that time forgot at the best of times.

No bin collection in the last three weeks and our local waste site is also closed.