As the Philadelphia municipal workers’ strike continues without an agreement, mountains of trash continue to pile, and the city is starting to smell. Many city streets are lined with piles of garbage, some so big that they’re taller than people.
At Princeton and Hawthorne in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood, a heaping mound of trash has grown so large it has forced the city to put up tape and direct people to a sanitation convenience center at State and Ashburner for them to drop off their garbage.
“The stench is unbelievable,” Felix Romelien of Mayfair said.
“Wasn’t nice in the car because of the smell,” Dave Kennedy, of Mayfair, said. “It’s not fun.”…