{"id":1000324,"date":"2021-11-11T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1000324"},"modified":"2021-11-11T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T00:29:28","slug":"report-dumpsters-overflow-and-trash-piles-up-near-global-cop26-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-dumpsters-overflow-and-trash-piles-up-near-global-cop26-climate-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Dumpsters Overflow And Trash Piles Up Near Global COP26 Climate Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-dumpsters-overflow-and-trash-piles-up-near-global-cop26-climate-summit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1000324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As world leaders came together at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, mounds of trash reportedly continued to pile up \u201cjust a short way\u201d from the global summit.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/11\/world\/europe\/glasgow-garbage-strike.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">reported<\/a>, \u201cOutside the gleaming center of Scotland\u2019s largest city, dumpsters and trash cans are overflowing.\u201d According to the outlet, \u201cThe city\u2019s rat population has surged, with four garbage workers hospitalized because of attacks over the past five months. And litter is strewn across streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fly-tippers have been discarding rubbish underneath the M8 motorway, among other places in the city, including construction waste, bathtubs, and general household waste.<\/p>\n<p>The Times described the scene as \u201c\u2026 the reality of today\u2019s throwaway society,\u201d made worse by an eight-day strike staged by the city\u2019s garbage collectors that concluded on Monday. Workers complained about low pay, disrespectful treatment from management, and adverse working conditions. They threatened another work stoppage before Christmastime if pay raises are not granted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Away from the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow\u2019s gleaming center, dumpsters are overflowing, the city\u2019s rat population has surged and litter is strewn across streets after an eight-day strike by garbage collectors that ended on Monday.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N3oYVwcbCt\">https:\/\/t.co\/N3oYVwcbCt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1458812043809771528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Mitchell, a top official for the GMB Scotland trade union that represents approximately 1,000 garbage collectors in Glasgow, claims the government has \u201cabandoned low paid workers who have saved this nation\u201d during the pandemic ever since COVID-19 infections have decreased.<\/p>\n<p>More details from the Times:<\/p>\n<p><em>In parts of the city, trash is now collected only once every three weeks, down from once every two weeks about a year ago. That means garbage collectors, many of whom make less than 20,000 British pounds ($27,000) a year, have to carry heavier loads up and down steps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On top of the less frequent collections, volumes of trash per household climbed over the past two years, a reflection of increased spending on takeout and online deliveries, according to Mr. Mitchell.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe pandemic has created waste upon waste upon waste,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Glasgow City Council\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgow.gov.uk\/cop26#:~:text=Glasgow%20was%20chosen%20by%20the,achieving%20carbon%20neutrality%20by%202030.\">indicates<\/a> that it was chosen to host COP26 partly due to its \u201ccommitment to sustainability,\u201d adding that the town was recently \u201cawarded the status of Global Green City\u201d and has \u201can ambitious target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the two-week conference, thousands of protesters and youth organizers have gathered in the streets of Glasgow for a series of demonstrations expressing frustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As world leaders came together at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, mounds of trash reportedly continued to pile up \u201cjust a short way\u201d from the global summit.The New York Times reported, \u201cOutside the gleaming center of Scotland\u2019s largest city, dumpsters and trash cans are overflowing.\u201d According to the outlet, \u201cThe city\u2019s rat population has surged, with four garbage workers hospitalized because of attacks over the past five months. And litter is strewn across streets.\u201dFly-tippers have been discarding rubbish underneath the M8 motorway, among other places in the city, including construction waste, bathtubs, and general household waste.The Times described the scene as \u201c\u2026 the reality of today\u2019s throwaway society,\u201d made worse by an eight-day strike staged by the city\u2019s garbage collectors that concluded on Monday. Workers complained about low pay, disrespectful treatment from management, and adverse working conditions. They threatened another work stoppage before Christmastime if pay raises are not granted.Away from the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow\u2019s gleaming center, dumpsters are overflowing, the city\u2019s rat population has surged and litter is strewn across streets after an eight-day strike by garbage collectors that ended on Monday.https:\/\/t.co\/N3oYVwcbCt\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) November 11, 2021Chris Mitchell, a top official for the GMB Scotland trade union that represents approximately 1,000 garbage collectors in Glasgow, claims the government has \u201cabandoned low paid workers who have saved this nation\u201d during the pandemic ever since COVID-19 infections have decreased.More details from the Times:In parts of the city, trash is now collected only once every three weeks, down from once every two weeks about a year ago. That means garbage collectors, many of whom make less than 20,000 British pounds ($27,000) a year, have to carry heavier loads up and down steps.On top of the less frequent collections, volumes of trash per household climbed over the past two years, a reflection of increased spending on takeout and online deliveries, according to Mr. Mitchell.\u201cThe pandemic has created waste upon waste upon waste,\u201d he said.The Glasgow City Council\u2019s website indicates that it was chosen to host COP26 partly due to its \u201ccommitment to sustainability,\u201d adding that the town was recently \u201cawarded the status of Global Green City\u201d and has \u201can ambitious target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.\u201dDuring the two-week conference, thousands of protesters and youth organizers have gathered in the streets of Glasgow for a series of demonstrations expressing frustration with the world leaders in town. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 18, recently led a protest near the international summit, describing the meeting as \u201ca PR event\u201d and a \u201ctwo-week long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah.\u201d\u201cIt is not a secret that COP26 is a failure,\u201d said Thunberg. \u201cIt should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place.\u201d\u201cThe people in power can continue to live in their bubble filled with their fantasies, like eternal growth on a finite planet and technological solutions that will suddenly appear seemingly out of nowhere and will erase all of these crises just like that.\u201d\u201cAll this while the world is literally burning, on fire, and while the people living on the front lines are still bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.\u201dRelated:The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}