Consequences of brown bin tax

Sir, – My husband and I wholeheartedly agree with the objections to the £25 brown bin tax proposed by Perth and Kinross Council.

We are a couple who enjoy looking after our garden and adjoining pathway, so pruning has to be done along with grass cutting and weeding, and all that greenery has to be binned.

Up until now it was placed in the brown bin.

Without the use of that bin – should we choose not to pay the £25 tax – it will have to be put into a black bag and taken to the local refuse dump.

We’re both in our late eighties, which makes this chore difficult for us, but if we don’t want to pay the £25 we have no alternative.

Our council tax used to cover bin uplifting, now that seems not to be the case.

We have also heard our local refuse dump is likely to be closed, so how far have we to travel to find one?

In our opinion the council is going the right way to encourage flytipping with their greed, asking for £25 to have our garden waste uplifted. Mr and Mrs Sinclair. Micras, Auchterarder.