I'm delighted to report that everything I left out after Christmas was collected, whether in the new bins or the old recycling boxes.
There was apparently a certain amount of grumbling along the lines of "we don't have to take that" etc, but it all went so I'm happy
I did hear over Christmas of a revolutionary new waste collection system from my relatives who live in Kent
They just leave all of their rubbish out in bags on a Monday morning - and it gets collected
How outrageous of their local authority to come up with something so simple !!