Bins could go a week without being emptied after refuse workers across 15 council areas in Scotland voted for strike action later this month.
Around 1,500 members of the Unite union will walk out on August 24 after rejecting a "pitiful" two per cent pay offer from Cosla.
Some 250 staff at Edinburgh City Council have already said they plan to walk out over a pay dispute on August 18 and 30 – at the height of the busiest time of the year for the city due to the Fringe festival.
