Crews working on collection rounds for waste management company Biffa will tell their stories about dealing with aggressive members of the public in a two-part ITV series; ‘Britain sees red: caught on camera’, starting this evening.
The programme, produced by ITN, is due to air at 9pm tonight (23 July), with a concluding episode next week (30 July), and will feature several videos of Biffa employees being put in uncomfortable positions due to verbal and physical abuse directed towards them, as well as being subject other threats, such as dangerous driving.
A spokesman for Biffa’s Municipal division, said: “Our staff make around three million collections every week from nearly three million households, and clean many hundreds of miles of streets, roads and beaches.
“It’s commonly acknowledged as dangerous work – and it’s being made more dangerous by a really worrying increase in aggression towards our crews. They’re only trying to do the job that people want them to do.”
Attacks on waste operatives are not uncommon and Biffa crews have previously been featured on BBC TV programme The One Show.
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