HAVING read the Bolton Evening News on November 21, and the various correspondence featured previously regarding the bi-weekly refuse collection system, I wanted to give you the perspective of someone living in a five-person household, who has been struggling with these changes from their inception in June.

My first observation is that it is no surprise that the changes have been brought in to meet our control-obsessed Government's target for recycling.

What other logical reason could there be to bring in an ill-considered system, which sees virtually every family I know with a full bin (grey) within three to four days of it having been emptied.

Given that the whole point of improving recycling is to limit the depletion of the Earth's resources, the fact that I now have to get in my car once a week to take the refuse which won't fit in the bin (grey) to the tip and burn fossil fuel to get me there and back (and thus deplete the Earth's resources, not to mention adding to greenhouse gases) seems utterly self defeating.

To add insult to injury, I pay a substantial amount each year in council tax for this patently ludicrous service.

You can be sure that in the local elections next May, I will be voting for the party which supports the return to weekly collections, and pursues the growth of recycling.

Michael Baker

Whitland Avenue

Bolton