Joys of recycling

I DON’T share Christopher Stevens’s displeasure at the arrogance of middle-class flytippers (Mail).

When I acquired a new threepiece suite, I asked the council to collect the old one. I was quoted a fee of £10. I was told to leave the furniture outside my house to be picked up in five to ten days’ time. Within an hour of doing this, a young man knocked on the door to ask if he could have it. He was delighted when I said he could and he organised a van to collect it later that day.

I was happy that my unwanted furniture had gone to someone who needed it instead of ending up in the council tip. Mrs BRONWEN CRUICKSHANK,

Brighouse, W. Yorks. A NEIGHBOUR put an outgrown child’s bike outside their house labelled: ‘Free to a good home.’ The bicycle was still there after three weeks, so they replaced the label with one saying: ‘For sale: £10.’ The bike disappeared overnight. MIKE JONES, S. Witham, Lincs. OF COURSE middle-class flytippers wouldn’t want to load up their shiny new four-wheeldrive with rubbish for the tip. After all, it might get dirty! PAUL CHARLES COOK,

Huddersfield, W. Yorks.