Six communities across Massachusetts impacted by the ongoing trash collector strike filed a complaint in Salem Superior Court Thursday morning asking a judge to put an end to it. "We filed a suit to try and get some relief from the court to require Republic to pick up our trash and recycling,

If your trash is normally picked up by Republic Services in King and Snohomish counties, it might be piling up while workers are on strike demanding better wages, benefits and working conditions.

"Time is of the essence," the Peabody letter also states. "With summer heat intensifying and trash piling up, the consequences of inaction are not just political or financial—they are human and urgent...