SURELY we should be making it easier to recycle our household waste, not more difficult?

Here in Devizes it seems that every year the hours of access to the household recycling centre reduce quite dramatically so that now, if one has a normal 9-5-style job, one can only join the queue to get in during the ludicrously short opening hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Other parts of the country are managing much better.

I’ve experienced a much superior service in a town in East Cheshire that’s similar in size to Devizes and with council tax about seven per cent lower than ours.

Public access to their site at this time of the year is for 12 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s a smaller site, manned by fewer staff and, unlike Devizes, queues to gain access are rare.

By comparison our recycling site is open for six hours a day and for five days a week, closed Thursday and Friday, the next two busiest days after Saturday and Sunday.

Household collections are not much better. In the East Cheshire town, each house has three wheelie bins: landfill, all recyclables and composting. How easy is that?

In Devizes we have to understand and remember what is recyclable and whether to put it into a wheelie bin or an awkward lidded black box that gets blown around by a moderate wind? And we pay extra for the green bin which is not the case in East Cheshire. And all collections are on the same day of the week which also is not the case here.

Please, Wiltshire, make it easier for us to do the right thing.

NICK SEAGER, London Road, Devizes