"Jim K.." wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff" Wrote in message:
Ask the council if they want them, if they are undamaged
and belong to you,

An excellent point Brian, perhaps m'lud michael would care to
consider the situation where, having had the first bin(s) stolen,
the ones in question were purchased by the homeowner.

Name one Local Authority in the UK where homeowners are required
to purchase replacement wheelie bins in the event of their
reporting their own bin having been lost or stolen ? Rather than
replacements being provided free of charge.

Which while it may allow the more enterprising if dishonest
homeowner to re-use their original "lost" bin for some other
purpose, is still preferable to encouraging a situation a
where a flourishing black market in stolen wheelie bins
could develop.

This however has nothing to do with a situation where a
Council might identify a useful revenue stream, in charging
homeowners for lost wheelie bins which were never reported
to them.

Whereas if the OP reports these three wheelie bins as
having been stolen, then all that will happen is that the Council
will supply him with another three.

michael adams

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