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Seville's Trash Strikes Make Garbage Pile Up (PHOTOS)

PHOTOS: 4,500 Tons Of Trash Pile Up In Seville

Rubbish collectors in the picturesque Spanish city of Seville have been on strike since last week and it's really starting to smell.

According to UPI, already 4,500 tons of garbage have gathered in the town's otherwise gorgeous streets over the weekend. Antonio Bazo, the leader of the trash-collectors union, said the union's members also set at least 25 trash receptacles alight.

Garbage collectors are protesting municipal austerity cuts that would slash workers' wages and change their schedules, website ThinkSpain reports.

Want to see Seville's less elegant side? Take a look at the photos in the slideshow below.

Smelly Sevilla
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A man rides past uncollected rubbish in a street of Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A tree is surrounded by uncollected rubbish on a square of Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A woman pulls a plastic bag from uncollected rubbish in a street of Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A woman walks with her bike past uncollected rubbish in a street of Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A man walks past uncollected rubbish in a street of Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A man walk past uncollected rubbish in a street of Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A woman walks past uncollected rubbish on a riverbank of Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Employees of LIPASAM (cleaning public municipal society and environmental protection) and MERCASEVILLA, (protection of the environment and the company managing the central food market Seville) protest against austerity cuts in Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Employees of LIPASAM (cleaning public municipal society and environmental protection) and MERCASEVILLA, (protection of the environment and the company managing the central food market Seville) protest against austerity cuts in Sevilla on February 4, 2013. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)

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