With both sides set to return to negotiations on Tuesday, residents and local businesses are left to navigate the growing pile of waste.

As the Republic Services trash strike stretches into it's second week, we are hearing from neighbors and business owners about the effects the leftover trash is leaving behind.

A few Bay Area communities are starting to see trash picked up again after sanitation workers went on strike last week. Workers for Republic Services stopped collecting trash as part of a contract fight between the union and company,