Philadelphia officials and members of the city's union representing blue-collar workers resumed negotiations Tuesday as residents grew increasingly frustrated with garbage piling up on the streets.

Pungent odors permeate the City of Brotherly Love as a contract impasse between the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees continues.

Trash continues to pile up along Philadelphia’s streets as a union strike by sanitation workers and other municipal employees enters its eighth day, following failed negotiations with the city for higher wages.