soup expressed precisely :
If you do skip them and they later ask, act stupid and say "what bins?
we put them out years ago and never saw them again" although admittedly
the possibility of them worrying about where your bins went is a remote
one.

Got to ask though, why skip them, they can be very useful , if not to
you to someone, free-ad in local paper?

Yep!

Our new green bin soon lost its lid in the truck which empties them, I
rang the council asked them to supply a new lid and they dropped off a
complete new bin. I repurposed the lid-less one as a handy building
sand store, kept under cover at the back of the garden.