As the trash strike that began on July 1 stretches into late August, several restaurants in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood say they’ve been fighting with Republic Services to get out of their contracts with the company.
“At a certain point, our trash was so piled up, we had to keep some trash inside the restaurant,” said Desmond Cheng, the manager of both Hei La Moon and Kaze Shabu Shabu.
He says the trash at his two restaurants wasn’t being picked up and he was cited from city code enforcement. He ultimately signed a deal with a new trash company…