Sidewalks in Philadelphia neighborhoods are covered with plastic bags full of trash that haven’t been collected in a week. It’s rotting. It smells. It’s full of holes. And nobody knows when it’s going to get picked up.

The city blames the pandemic, which has caused more people to stay home and make more trash, along with a shortage of sanitation workers as the main reasons trash pickup is delayed. But the workers have a different view.

What’s going on? Catalina Jaramillo of WHYY’s PlanPhilly explains why Philadelphia’s trash problem is so much worse now.