One million bin or recycling collections have been missed in Swindon since May last year with critics slamming the local council for “brought to its knees”. Tory councillors claim that been between May 18 and late November, under an old collection system, 572,399 homes had missed collections – a 12 per cent failure rate. While a new structure – introduced on November 27 until February 15 – saw the failure rate surge to a 43 per cent, with 476,100 homes missing collections. Tory councillors have calculated the immense number of missing collections based on a bin not collected on its allocated d…