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Waste has been piling up in the city since hundreds of bin workers started all-out strike action as a result the dispute over pay and jobs.

He said one of the most obvious solutions would be to replace two-year permits with four-year permits, so that renewal applications don’t keep piling atop new applications and extending wait times.

For Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, the list of problems keeps piling up.

There was already talk of the infestation of rats, and a pest controller I met in Handsworth told me his workload had already doubled as result of the waste piling up in the streets.

At one point, thousands of complaints were piling up monthly, a former employee at Ola told the BBC.