Trash service is resuming for some in Contra Costa County, but for others, there's no end in sight as a Republic Services garbage workers' walkout has trash piling up across the Bay Area.

Republic Services resumed limited trash pickup services to a broad swath of Contra Costa County, as well as other pockets of the Bay Area, after a crippling strike threatened to leave trash and other detritus piling up outside houses and businesses across the region.

Republic Services sanitation workers are picketing in at least seventy cities across the country. More than three million Californians are affected by a pause in trash pick up.

"It's disgusting. I hate it. I don't want to keep my garbage here but what can we do. I hope this issue will be resolved as soon as possible," the owner of a Daly City mini mart said.

As the nationwide garbage standoff between Teamsters union members and Republic Services continues, some Bay Area cities are resorting to temporary drop-off sites this weekend to appease residents’ concerns about mounting trash.

Bay Area sanitation workers this week joined what a union leader called a nationwide garbage “war” between the Teamsters and Republic Services — which provides trash and recycling pickups for hundreds of thousands of residents around the U.S — over wages and working conditions.

Frustration is growing and so are piles of trash as a nationwide Republic Services trash pickup strike stretches into its second week. The good news for residents is