"Burning household recycling like cardboard, paper or plastics can be very dangerous, especially indoors. Please don't burn your household waste or recycling. You could quickly be overcome by the smoke, or burned."
Birmingham, once celebrated for its municipal governance, now faces a crisis rooted in political dysfunction exacerbated by refuse workers' strikes and poor administrative decisions.
Curry, who has been called the rat king locally, runs MC Environmental Pest Control. He has been on the frontline of stamping out the rodent threat amid a weeks-long bin strike that has caused bins to pile up on Birmingham's streets.
Birmingham tops the ranking for unemployment benefits claims in October 2024, with 10,749.64 claims per 100,000 residents, a significant increase of 29.93% from the previous year.