YET again, Mr Griffith writes in with his excellent set of questions to the council, about the costs associated with the council's recycling policies, the income Bolton may be losing out on from selling the cans and bottles and how the government will assess our performance from the other nine Greater Manchester councils. (Letters, January 12).

Cllr Roger Hayes' latest letter, addressed to David Crausby MP, reveals an almost obsession over targets, implying that the higher recycling percentage for year 2010 should be aimed for now.

It would have been better if he had introduced recycling across all of the town's 110,000 or so households during last summer, with weekly grey bin emptying and then closely monitored the recycling tonnage being gathered in month by month to see if the 12 per cent figure was climbing.

He opted for the fortnightly scheme in certain areas, meaning that larger households struggled with the 50 per cent cuts in their general waste collection, but those living in the other areas continued to enjoy weekly collections of the grey bin. I believe Cllr Hayes has little grasp of the difficulties his zealous pursuit of targets have caused.

As for the range of Liberal policies endured over 2004-06, such as refuse stockpiling; break up of the Market Hall small traders; football tickets for premiership matches for Council managers, and obscene pay rises for senior managers and councillors, all of these policies could form a display in the £13m 'Museum of Comedy' which the Lib Dems want to build in the town centre.

Simon Pearce

Lower house Walk

Bromley Cross