PARIS: Thousands of tonnes of garbage have piled up on streets across the French capital after a week of strike action by dustbin collectors against government pension reforms, city hall said on Sunday (Mar 12). Three incineration plants outside the capital have been hit by the work stoppages that have lef
PARIS: Thousands of tonnes of garbage have piled up on streets across the French capital after a week of strike action by dustbin collectors against government pension reforms, city hall said on Sunday .
The capital's household waste agency Syctom said it has been re-routing dustbin lorries to other storage and treatment sites in the region and has yet to resort to calling in the police. Life expectancy for the garbage workers is 12-17 years below the average for the country as a whole, the CGT says.
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