(8 Jul 2025)
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Philadelphia – 8 July 2025
1. Wide of a pile of trash on a street
2. Cut away of reflection of Terrill Haigler on the side mirror
3. Wide of a member of a private hauling team picking up trash
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Terrill Haigler, private hauler:
“My name is Terrill Haigler, also known as Ya Fav Trashman. And what I am doing today is I am picking up residential trash during the DC33 strike. The city is in an interesting place right now. I’ve been joking around and I’ve been telling people it’s like Gotham City with water ice, right? We have trash everywhere. People, you know, some people are angry. There’s tension. Family members are arguing over what side you’re on. And so right now the city is a little bit of unrest. So, our goal is to hopefully relieve some of that tension by cleaning as many blocks as we can, picking up as much trash as we can for customers, just to give some ease and some peace.”
5. Wide of trash
6. Trash being picked up
7. Haigler in the car
8. A resident dropping off trash
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Terrill Haigler, private hauler:
“In my opinion, doing this service, isn’t crossing the line. We support DC33 one hundred percent. I hope they get the number and more. They deserve everything that they’re asking for. But we also have to think about the residents on the other side. There are some people, elderly, mothers who have children who can’t let the trash sit for five and six days, seven and eight days. It becomes a health hazard.”
10. Resident dropping off trash
11. Various of trash pickup
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Henkels, Philadelphia resident:
“Ironically, before I knew that my neighborhood organized a pickup, I took my garbage to a pickup spot on 18th and Catherine earlier today. And I watched this enormous truck moving this enormous trash bin. And I watched a lot of people looking at it with interest and concern. I mean, bottom line is nobody wants trash sitting on their front stoop, especially not for five, six, seven days. So I think there’s a little bit of anxiety. The longer it goes, the uglier it’s going to get. But I did talk to a guy at the other site and he told me, he says he’s been to neighborhoods where people are really mad. I mean, they’re like hornets. That’s going to happen if it lasts too long.”
13. Various of city workers’ rally
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Lasheeka Pressley, city worker on strike:
“So it’s been very tough. This is day eight for us. This is a new experience for a lot of us, but we’re out here fighting as hard as we can. Every one of us love what we do, so we want to get back to work. So we’re just like toughing it out. We’re working together as a family, as a unit, and we’re going to make it through this strike and we’re just ready to get back to work.”
15. Various of workers on strike
STORYLINE:
Philadelphia faces mounting trash and tension as a strike by many of the city’s blue-collar workers enters its eighth day.
Some residents and small businesses are hiring pop-up haulers to clear their blocks of trash, while mostly supporting the union’s push for higher pay.
Terrill Haigler, 35, a former sanitation worker who now does private hauling under the handle “Ya Fav Trashman," said tension across the city was heating up Tuesday along with the 94-degree (34.4-degree Celsius) temperature.
“It’s like Gotham City with water ice,” he said, referencing a local treat that is famously mispronounced “wooder ice” by natives.
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