James Justice was furious when council officials slapped a sticker on his bin reprimanding him for putting out too many bags of grass cuttings.

He said: "With the sudden improvement in the weather last week the grass shot up and I got my first opportunity the cut the lawn this year.

"I am one of the many people that never received a green wheelie bin last year and am still waiting.

"I placed five small bags not full ones either, out for collection A sticker was left on our bin saying we were only allowed two bags.
"They took the two smallest, leaving the other three half filled ones and told my wife to get a compost maker.

"I spoke to Fergus Cameron at Rother Council and told him I thought that if we had no green bin garden waste was collected with the refuse. I was told to get a composter or take the excess to the tip.
"I was told only two bags as it rots and produces greenhouse gases at the land fill.

"My garden will produce enough waste to fill the green bin once a fortnight if I had one?

"A composter will produce the same gases in my back garden and breed mosquitoes. It is a 30 mile round trip to the tip
"I asked when we would get our bins and was told Rother were not giving an exact date as they did not want to get people's hopes up when they don't arrive again.

The residents of Rother are being are being robbed at gunpoint, the gun being the threat of prosecution if we don't do what the council wants.
"This year's leaflet on where the money comes from and how they spend it does not show what happened to a year of recycling."

Plans to roll out green waste bins to 11,000 homes across Rother have been postponed until further notice following a dispute between the council and contractors.

Rother District Council promised angry residents they would get their bins at Easter, but the deadline came and went with no explanation as to why the elusive bins failed to arrive.

But now it has been revealed the scheme has been temporarily shelved in a row over costs and resources.

Contractor Verdant had quoted Rother a higher price than the council originally budgeted for - and Rother can't afford to pay.
Most homes in Bexhill have already got their bins, along with some areas of Battle.
But more rural areas will be forced to wait.

Madeline Gorman, head of amenities at Rother District Council, said: "We have reached agreement on resources Verdant will be using.
"The next stage is to agree to process the round schedule and work out which households will be covered by the rounds and that will determine the final cost."

Ms Gorman said a new date had not been fixed for the green bins, but they will be rolled out this year.
She added: "We have never promised all residents they could have a green bin.

"We have always known that the service would have to be limited.
"Of course we always wanted to give as many residents as possible a green bin and that's where it comes down to the practicalities of how many communities we can serve."