Rubbish collection

is an issue everywhere. In our street it is a particular issue. Our street is short. There are two sets of duplexes on it. We don't own a car but everyone else in the street does - and some own two. That means there are always some parked in the street.
Add to that there is "the court" - a group of units you reach by going up a short roadway. There are eight of these. They all have cars. Several of them have more than one car - although there is only parking space for one car per unit.  You can guess where they park. And then we have....rubbish collection.
Each household has three bins, green waste, recycling and general waste. General waste can go out each week. Recycling and green waste get collected alternately. It's a complex system and it is made more complex by the fact that the vehicles which empty the bins cannot go up the roadway into the court. The people who live there have to bring their bins down into our street.
Last week we had a letter from the council. The company which collects the general waste had complained there were more bins than there were households in the street.  This is incorrect. Indeed there were a number of errors in the letter.  There were demands that the extra bins not be put out unless a surcharge was paid and a threat to fine those who did.
I sent a letter to the council pointing out that in fact there were fewer bins put out than there are households. We share our general waste bin with a resident of the court. I happen to know that someone else does as well. Recycling bins also get shared. The lawn leading to the units gets mowed by a company that takes the cuttings away and there isn't enough garden to warrant people putting out their green bins too often - and when they do they often share. 
I had a response to my letter. It was, as I suspected it would be, scarcely helpful. It does not take into account where the residents of the units need to place their bins.
And I suspect there is another problem and that is the parked cars.  There are simply too many cars. It is difficult to negotiate around them.
The drivers of those collection vehicles have a mind numbing sort of repetitive job. It demands just enough concentration not to be able to think about anything else. The noise level is too high to even be able to listen to anything else. I don't doubt the drivers are frustrated when they come upon the problems the cars represent. But...there really are fewer bins for them to empty in this street!