OK we currently have a large size wheelie bin for general waste, 2 boxes for plastic, bottles and cans, and 2 boxes for paper and cardboard and a smaller food waste container. The 2 types of boxes will each be replaced by 1 wheelie bin, which cannot be stored in front of our house because they would need to be lifted up and down steep steps to and from street level on collection days which I cannot do unless I want a course of treatment from our osteopath every time.

We have room for just one wheelie bin at the back of our garage at the top of steep steps down to our back garden, which I can squeeze by, and my wife has difficulty, so storage of any further wheelie bins there is out of the question.

We live on the North Downs so from street level to the botton of our garden is a drop of some 30 feet.

My wife will argue for retention of our existing colection arrangements.