REGARDING the subject of wheelie bins, some very relevant points have been raised in recent letters to your newspaper against the use of these bins and considering the cost of them I fail to see any advantage at all in using them.

We are also being issued with an apparently quite small box for recycling certain items only.

For quite some time now my husband and I have been recycling much of our waste i.e. plastic, cardboard, glass, tins and newspapers.

This involves a ten-mile round trip approximately every three weeks with all except newspapers (no room) which go to the local supermarket recycling bin.

We have a large garden which creates a lot of waste, especially at this time of year.

We have two very large compost bins and we also save some sacks of leaves to rot down, but we still have much more to dispose of last week we put out nine sacks of garden waste for collection.

What shall we do with all this in future? It won't all go into a wheelie bin.

As we do not feel it to be economical for a retired couple such as ourselves to make more frequent ten-mile trips to the recycling centre we shall simply have to swap what we have been taking for garden waste and put the plastic, cardboard etc, in the wheelie bin.

Wheeled bins are not going to help the recycling issues in any way just the opposite in our case.

Why doesn't North Wiltshire District Council spend the wheeled bin funds on extra collections of recycling materials instead or is that too much like common sense?

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