COULD someone from St Helens Council have the courtesy to explain to me why I have to pay for a “replacement” brown bin when I have never had one to replace?

When I moved into my current home, there were no means of rubbish removal. No brown bin, no recycling bags or boxes.

I have now received my recycling bags and boxes and I’m recycling as I usually would. However, I’m disheartened at even doing this when I am being refused a brown bin for my household waste.

I could understand the issue if I had left my brown bin out in the street and it had been stolen or set alight. But I have never had one to begin with. Surely every new tenant should be given one and from then on it is your responsibility as to what happens to it.

My rent and council tax are always paid on time, I recycle as best as I possibly can, and yet I am stuck with black bin bags in my small yard (which has not been nice over the warm weather, I can tell you!) because I have no means of disposing with them.

Annoyed tenant (name and address supplied)