Waste workers have been on strike in the city on and off since January but are now entering their second week of indefinite action, as rubbish and complaints from local businesses and residents pile up.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has weighed in, using the rubbish piling up on Birmingham's streets as an attack line ahead of the local elections in May. "If you vote Labour, you get trash," she says, in a broadside at the Labour-run council.