Readers will remember the outcry from ratepayers who had already paid their annual rates bills, which covered the cost of two green waste and two household junk pick-ups from verges during the 2012-13 financial year.
The council took a consistent hammering in these pages because of that unilateral decision.
However, it has not rebated the money it saved.
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ANDREW CAMERON, Innaloo