AN Evesham man is threatening to take Wychavon District Council to court - for not supplying enough bin bags.

John Heppenstall, of Eastside, North Littleton, is annoyed at the council for only supplying two black sacks each week.

Mr Heppenstall said: "I receive two sacks a week but we usually end up with enough rubbish to fill two and a half bags.

"When I contacted the council I was told that I was only to have two bags a week. Why should I, as a council taxpayer, have to buy my own black sacks to fill with rubbish when it's the council's duty to provide us with a sufficient amount of bags?"

Wychavon's waste management officer Mark Edwards told the Journal: "We actually supply more sacks now than we ever have done.

"Previously residents got a black sack each week - when they put one out they got one back. Now we deliver a roll of 52 black sacks every six months, that's two a week and 16 each of purple and clear sacks to put cans, plastics, paper and textiles out for recycling.

"To encourage people to recycle there's no limit to the amount of purple and clear sacks residents can have and the more recycling that's been done means less is being put in the black sacks and taken to landfill."

Despite Mr Heppenstall being a keen recycler and supporting the council's plans for providing bags to recycle rubbish such as paper and glass he strongly disagrees with having to buy his own refuse bags.

He said: "The council have a duty, an obligation to fulfil to their council taxpayers in providing them with more than two black bags a week. I am totally annoyed by the whole matter and with the response I got from the council. I will take this matter further. I'll take it to court if need be."