Garbage piled up over the long holiday weekend as a trash collectors strike in Massachusetts enters its seventh day. There are backup plans in place to begin collecting trash on Monday in several communities as temperatures are soaring into the 90s again.
Republic Services workers are on strike in Beverly, Canton, Danvers, Gloucester, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Malden, Manchester-By-The-Sea, Marblehead, North Reading, Peabody, Swampscott, Wakefield, and Watertown.
Though trash is piling up after the holiday weekend, collectors are vowing to stay on the picket lines. Viewers from around Greater Boston have sent photos to WBZ-TV showing trash in the streets in recent days, including piles of garbage in Beverly…