HAVING read the letter from Cllr Adrian Fox dated October 13 and headed, Support your Waste Scheme, and walked my dog along the canal towpath and Middle Lane, I just had to write in to express my dream and vision and support to a caring, environmentally friendly, green district council that is not prepared to let its district become a rubbish tip for everyone in order to save some money.

I dreamt that over the past 12 months that I attended the Trowbridge community skip locations on a Friday evening on at least six occasions, all of which were well used by the local population, to place my excess household/community and garden waste when there was not enough room to put it in my wheelie bin.

These bins had been thoughtfully provided by a district council some 20 years ago with such foresight that they could then contain some two weeks' household waste.

I dreamt of a council which provided its voters with a free facility for them to dispose of their dangerous old fridge, freezer or even old sofa by merely leaving it outside their property and then telephoning the council.

Oh for the council which would collect my crushed tins, plastic bottles, cardboard as well as my old newspapers because they looked to the long-term future and well-being of the community they serve and were elected by.

As I walked I was awoken by the sight of my dog rapidly approaching another dangerous piece of rusted household junk which have increasingly been dumped in our local countryside over the past couple of months.

I suddenly thought: "What a caring district council I have helped to elect because soon I will not have to worry about taking my rubbish to any dump because we will all be living on one."

Was I only dreaming or is it now a nightmare?

MRS BARBARA KIRKHAM,

St Mary's Gardens,

Hilperton,

Trowbridge.