GREEN bin collections have resumed so let us take stock.

During the entire period of their suspension our garden generated 105 large bin sacks of green waste.

Fourteen went into our two green bins to await resumption of collections, 18 went into three black bin collections and the remaining 75 bin sacks we took in 10 trips to the recycling centre at Knutsford.

Had the collection regime remained unchanged, we would have had to make just two trips to the recycling centre.

Soon after we paid £45 in August for a second green bin, the Council announced a 30 per cent reduction in collections and withdrew the service at the very time when we needed it most.

There was no comeback, consumer law would protect us if a company varied the contract terms so radically, but the council did.

So council, don’t mislead us again by saying that ‘there will be no increase to the £45-per-year fee for each extra bin’, Guardian, March 19.

In reality this tells us nothing, you must also tell us the duration of the service.

You must conduct your ‘full review of the timings of the suspension’ and make the announcement well before the charge for the second bin is payable at the beginning of August.

Better still, the council could, to compensate those who were misled last August, announce that the second bin fee will not be payable until October 17 and thereby give itself more breathing space for the review.

But we won’t hold our breath.

David and Ann Woolf High Legh