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Tonnes of garbage pile up on Greek streets due to municipality workers strike

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Municipality workers have been on strike since last Sunday, the government tries to find a solution and national health organizations warn of the dangers for the public health as a heatwave with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius strikes Greece. Citizens keep bringing garbage to the streets, despite the appeals not to do so.
More than 1,500 tonnes of garbage is estimated to lay on the streets of Thessaloniki with the biggest problem to be located in the city center.

It is not the garbage collectors who are on strike. It is some 10,000 – 15,000 municipality workers on temporary contracts who block the garbage collection. They hinder garbage trucks and collectors to do their job, they block entrances to the landfills.

A couple of garbage trucks were allowed to collect waste in some municipalities of Thessaloniki on Saturday, especially outside ‘sensitive groups of the society’ like kindergartens and senior day care centers.

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