With both sides set to return to negotiations on Tuesday, residents and local businesses are left to navigate the growing pile of waste.

The strikes are all the more significant given the strike earlier this month by 9,000 Philadelphia city workers, including sanitation workers, was betrayed by the union bureaucracy.

A few Bay Area communities are starting to see trash picked up again after sanitation workers went on strike last week. Workers for Republic Services stopped collecting trash as part of a contract fight between the union and company,