My council threatened this and backed down.
(Current issue is getting them to empty the bins on the correct day.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2430077.html
A man has won a five month stand-off with his council over replacing a bin damaged by refuse workers.
CCTV footage shows binmen returning Tim Spencer’s wheelie bin without a lid in May, but the council refused to send him a free replacement.
They said he would have to pay £25 to replace it himself as the binmen hadn’t reported damaging it and the lid would have come off through wear and tear.
And when he complained his lidless bin was filing up with rainwater he claims they told him to drill holes in the bottom of it.
But after five months of back-and-forth without them budging, a Maidstone Borough Council worker finally delivered a free new green bin.
