I Was so thrilled to get the latest on recycling in the shape of a Green newspaper included in the Wiltshire Times last week. Good news !

So now we are to get a green bin to be collected every other week and a black bin. But to save money on the whole exercise they are not going to collect the regular rubbish weekly as usual we are now going to have a grey bin which will only be emptied fortnightly!

It may contain pet litter, fish, meat or babies' nappies but it will still only be collected every 14 days! And if rotting meat is left in the same bin for 14 days what about the flies and the maggots? What about the diseases which are bound to increase? You cannot leave such putrid garbage for two weeks.

The only solution of course will be to dump all such items onto the council doorstep! They obviously will not mind such disgusting rubbish hanging around for two weeks as this seems to have been approved by them.

I lived in Australia for a few years where there were collections twice a week. They can't possibly be serious.

V Coyne

Bradford on Avon

So now we know for sure. As from next month, our household refuse will only be collected fortnightly. Can our councillors and council officials not imagine what our wheelie bins will smell like when uneaten food, fish and meat remains have been in them for up to two weeks? It will be unbearable. Grass cuttings left in bins will also create an awful smell and generate considerable heat. The condition of the bins will become dreadful.

Each year we face increases in our council tax well above the rate of inflation and get less in the way of services. I suggest when the stench becomes intolerable, we all take our rubbish to the District Council offices and dump it on their doorstep.

BD Marsh

Trowbridge