THE plans to collect household refuse fortnightly, instead of weekly, fills me with as much dismay as it does Sarah Moody (Letters, February 27).

All our kitchen and garden waste goes into three large compost bins in our garden, apart from woody material which I take to the Canal Road recycling centre, I also use the bottle bank regularly and am a firm believer in recycling.

Despite these measures my wheelie bin is always full by the time it is emptied each week, so what will we be expected to do with the rubbish the second week?

Presumably we won't be able to use both bins for non-green waste, so it will be back to black plastic sacks being put out fortnightly with the bin.

If these are not taken the cats and foxes will have a field day spreading the rubbish around, and there will also be an explosion in the rat population.

I do not look forward to the smell of two-week-old rubbish in our garden in the summer either, especially when the grandchildren have been visiting and disposable nappies are included.

For us, and many others like us, this proposal effectively means a 50 per cent cut in services and in practice will be completely unacceptable. Whose bright idea was it?

JENNY HAZELL

Leigh Road,

Bradford on Avon

ONCE again the council gets its own way. They ask us if we want to have our bins emptied once a fortnight, now we have no choice because they say 64 per cent voted for it.

Now they want to give us another bin to go alongside our other one. Well, I for one do not want or need another bin. I recycle the majority of my waste into compost each week anyway. What gets me is they put the council tax up and what do we get, the streets don't look clean, the pavements are in a right state, verges are not weeded and considering how many houses that have been built in and around Trowbridge the council tax should not have needed to have been increased so much.

They are doing their utmost to take the Hilperton Gap away so they can put a useless road through and we know why that is, don't we? First the road then the houses, and now they want to ruin Southwick Country Park. Have they asked the people who go to the park every day what they want although that will not make any difference because, as this council as shown, we the public, we the payers, we the voters, get no say as to what goes on in our town. Well, listen all you voters out there, remember the next time it comes to vote get out there, vote them out, let's vote someone in that might listen to us and at least lives in Trowbridge.

MRS DM YOUNG

College Road,

Trowbridge