NEW BINS GET THUMBS DOWN

RAISE your hands if you are happy with your new re-cycling bins.

My hand is down; I am shocked by how these new bins spoil the look of our lovely streets and how difficult it is for many of our residents to accommodate them.

Did any of you get asked if you wanted them? I certainly didn’t. Was there a consultation process?

I had no idea that these bins would appear on my doorstep, until they did.

The old system could have worked fine, if the old bags had been totally replaced by the new Velcro fastening bags.

No litter would have escaped.

We all had storage space for bags, but we don’t have space for up to four large wheelie bins.

Once the council had decided they were going to change our recycling practices, there could have been other ways of achieving this.

One might have been having more community recycling bases, where we each take our recycling (I have seen this work effectively in towns in other countries).

The second way would have been by neighbours sharing bins, where each has only two bins to store.

The third way would have been to offer us smaller bins.

Were any of these considered?

As an added insult, we are now faced with over a million pound bill to fund this debacle. Frank Saddington via email