Don't give up hope of finding your bins. Not wishing to be a "bin bore" but it's quite something to watch the preparations made by the "Bin Scout Team" before the bin lorry even arrives. Let me explain.

I live on HOP and last year the bins from our property also disappeared until I suddenly spied one of them across the main road. On further investigation I found the others were also on the wrong side of the street and were dumped at various locations up HOP, practically as far up as the parade of shops!

Having now studied the "Bin Scout Team" operating practices, and in particular the Recycling Bin team, who arrive mid morning, I've seen at first hand the way the "Scout" gathers the bins and dodges the traffic on HOP main road to place the bins all on one side of the street. The problem is that after they've been emptied he has no idea of which properties the bins belong to unless they have the numbers painted on them so they mostly remain dumped for us to hunt them down!

I'm certain your bins will be amongst the ones currently abandoned on the pavements of HOP. But would definitely recommend painting your property number on them to help you identify them easily in the future.

Hope you find them.