We've been having trouble getting a green wheelie bin too. After waiting much longer than the one to three weeks the council quotes on its website for our bin to be delivered the council eventually admitted that there were hundreds of homes waiting for green wheelie bins in the area, and that we weren't going to get a bin any time soon.

I wrote to our local council members about this. Apparently the problem is an industry-wide shortage of bins. However the council doesn't seem to be helping matters by relying on a single supplier in Germany for all its bins.

It's annoying that we're paying our council tax and not getting the curbside recycling we're paying for. I've suggested to the council that they could provide recycling bags while people are waiting for their green wheelie bins, but they didn't seem interested.