MADRID (Reuters) - Heaps of plastic rubbish bags were piled up alongside snowdrifts in downtown Madrid on Wednesday after a historic storm paralysed the city's infrastructure, leaving some 9,000 tonnes of uncollected waste lining its streets.
Waste collection, which was suspended last Friday, restarted on Tuesday and had reached 40% capacity by that evening, the city council said in a statement.
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