REGARDING Maggie Brown’s letter (Oxford Mail, June 12) I also needed extra green sacks for recycling green garden waste, because in Rose Hill our back gardens are very big.

So off I went to the council to purchase two more of their lovely green sacks for £7.45 each However, I should have picked them up from the road, as the day they collect they do not put them back properly and they blow everywhere.

Anyway, on the next collection day, I put out four green sacks full of garden waste. Only two were collected.

I called the council to ask why. They replied that only two bags would be collected every two weeks.

I asked why was I able to buy extra bags. They told me that it was to replace original ones, which may get lost or damaged.

I said that, as on collection day I was the only one in my road who had put out green waste, would it really matter if they took four from mine?

They apologised and repeated that the rule was two per house every two weeks.

I find this bizarre.

I am trying to recycle, and keep my garden nice, yet they will not collect all my waste.

So for the next collection, I put two bags on my drive, and two on a neighbour’s.

They were collected. I called the council to tell them what I had done. You can guess the reply – “two bags per house per fortnightly collection”.

It’s madness. I will not vote again.

F R KANE, Rose Hill, Oxford