I AM sitting seething over the incompetent way our waste is collected in Bromsgrove.

I watched as the bin men took all the recycling boxes from my side of the road to empty them. I went out a few minutes later and there was no sign of my boxes!

Checking what boxes had been left across the other side of the road all mixed up they were definitely not mine? Someone had picked up my boxes and left two tatty ones in there place. I wasn’t having this. I’m not having someone else’s filthy battered boxes.

I have complained to the council and asked for two new blue boxes to replace the ones misdirected and if they want to charge me for them they can take a hike. I will just put my waste in the grey bins till they are supplied. I’m all for recycling but like some residents I get up at 6.30am to make sure my bins and boxes are out every Thursday by 7am.

If I’m having to inconvenience myself over this new waste management system and I think it’s only fair the council should see fit, that our bins and boxes are returned to the kerbside they were collected from.

Waste collection in Bromsgrove is a third class service that needs improving. If this practise doesn’t stop I’m going to refuse to recycle. I am going to withdraw my voluntary free labour, stop sorting my waste and stop putting recycling out like so many other people do in my road. Angry resident King George Close Bromsgrove