Garden waste recycling.

I helped a neighbour this morning put brambles into a green recycling poly bag. The thorns of course punctured the bag and only a small pile filled the sack. Another neighbour has ten sacks outside his gate. Whoever thought up the green bag garden recycling scheme was not a gardener. Whatever fits in a green bag would go on my compost heaps (I have 6) and whatever won't go on my heaps will not go in little green sacks, like branches of trees. I shred what I can, but...
At my mother's house in Lincolnshire, houses who need them are given a large green bin just like the black refuse bins. A friend in Leicestershire gets the same, but in brown. Then you can chop branches up to go in and not have to resort to a garden bonfire.
It is important to recycle not only to reduce smoke (though to be fair barbecues are more persistent smoke/smell producers) but to return organic matter to to impoverished soil. Bonfires reduce soil's goodness to ash, which grows nothing. A plant is made of the goodness taken out of the soil, and this needs to be returned. Councils can compost in bulk what individuals cannot handle.
So, councils, instead of littering the green compost we buy from you with bits of green polythene, consider a proper garden waste collection system to reuse this valuable resource.