I was driving from Calne to Marlborough on the A4 on Thursday, November 13 at 9am.

I sat in a queue of traffic (I counted 17 cars ahead of me) for 20 minutes, all of us being held up by a recycling lorry collecting bottles and paper.

What a farce! We must have burned up more fuel in that time than the energy that will be saved from this collection.

Gary Sogot, Netherstreet, Bromham.