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There's something rotten in ____________________ - and the smell is coming from the huge stacks of ____________________ piled up on sidewalks all over the city . Rio's street ____________________ chose the carnival holiday to demand better ____________________ . Their wages start at roughly $400 a month .

There could hardly be a better time for them to prove their importance . The streets were left a ____________________ after hundreds of carnival parades and now , ____________________ piles up in both poor and uptown ____________________ - and in tourist areas like Ipanema or ____________________ beach .

The president of Rio's rubbish collecting company has even appealed to the ____________________ to store rubbish at home whenever possible . He says 30% of the city's sweepers have gone on ____________________ . Some of those who have been working have been threatened by the strike movement so now police has been deployed alongside rubbish ____________________ to keep them safe as they go about their business .

The strike has divided opinions in Rio . On social media , many support the sweepers' ____________________ for better salaries . Others say they are opportunists and the situation is a big ____________________ to the city .

But Brazil's culture of ____________________ the streets doesn't help . A video that went viral online shows that even ____________________ have a problem with that . Rio's mayor , Eduardo Paes , is seen throwing what seemed to be the rest of an apple on the ____________________ - and now promised to impose himself a fine for his wrongdoing . His government recently created a ____________________ to keep Rio's residents from littering the streets .