In Toulouse, the garbage collectors’ strike begins to tick off traders and their customers
In Toulouse the garbage collectors’ strike began on December 15 to contest the end of the over-gone start to be seen.
The passage of trucks is disparate. At Minimes, for example, the avenue is picked up, but not the perpendicular streets.
Rats and crowded sidewalks
If the smell is not yet too present, the containers and garbage bags are bulky and attract animals. Traders are starting to get impatient. Itto runs the pastry shop at the corner of rue de la Sainte-Famille: “it’s complicated, with the Christmas holidays and this period of increased activity on a lot of waste“. The shopkeeper looked for a response solution to the recycling center, in vain :
We went to the recycling center, they take the box but not the whole thing. It keeps rats out and the smell will happen if it hangs out too much – Itto, pastry chef
Customers who complain about the situation
On the other side of Avenue des Minimes, Vanessa’s business is also suffering from the situation. She is the owner of a bar at the corner of Impasse Troy: “the container is full, garbage bags all around, it’s like that in all the streets, piles of garbage, it’s not aesthetic and it brings back rats“. Very familiar with reason for the strike garbage collectors, the shopkeeper gives her opinion spontaneously: ” it’s for the end of the day they end up putting people on their backs, I hear systematic complaints from my customers, not everyone agrees with this style of strike that obviously occurs during the holidays ! “
From negotiations between unions and Toulouse Métropole are in progress. The strike promises to be very well attended this Wednesday, December 22, both at the Raisin depot and at the Monlong depot (90% of declared strikers).