Garbage. Heaps, mounds and piles of it are growing daily—and in some places standing higher than a human being. Know more:
PARIS—Garbage. Heaps, mounds and piles of it are growing daily—and in some places standing higher than a human being.
“I’m fortunate to live here, but I’m 200 percent behind these guys,” Salazar said. “They’re smelling it all day long,” he said, though “it” wasn’t precisely the word he used. “They should get early retirement.” But garbage got wrapped up in the politics. And neither unions organizing protests nor some citizens are prepared to back down.
Workers in numerous sectors, from transportation to energy, have been holding intermittent strikes since January. But it is the garbage in the French capital that has made garbage collectors, long taken for granted, visible—and their anger obvious. “It doesn’t bother me because it’s for a good cause,” said Franck Jacquot, 51, standing outside a small bar he runs. Nearby, heaps of garbage loomed. “If we’re obliged to go this route—well, we’re here,” he said.
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