MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Marseille has hired private companies to pick up trash two weeks into a strike by garbage collectors that has left the city with overflowing bins, rats running through piles of waste and rubbish being blown into the sea.
A third strike in four months by the garbage workers means Marseille faces a repeat of an environmental disaster during a strike in October, when torrential rains washed tonnes of uncollected garbage on to the beaches and into the Mediterranean.
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