John Rumm wrote:

the council can supply a larger general waste bin if required[1], but I
see very few of them about.
[1] Although I don't know what hoops need to be jumped through for those

With the announcement of alternating collections, they have introduced a
charge for larger bins.

As soon as they started their consultation on changes, I swapped to a
larger recycling bin as there was no charge at that time ... and it was
fairly obvious the way the "consultation" was going to go