Dive Brief:

• Due to the Labor Department in Newburgh, New York stopping a construction project's dumpsters from being removed from the site, people began dumping personal household trash into the containers, which overflowed to the street.
• The waste piled up for over a month, taking over half of the block and attracting rats.
• ​The Labor Department finally gave the builders the green light to remove the containers and mountain of trash. 

Dive Insight:

People arrived to dump trash at the site, throwing trash bags, mattresses, furniture and auto parts into the pile of waste.