IN MY VIEW

I CAN’T believe our bin collections are going to be monthly.

Weekends should be a time to relax with family, maybe enjoy a day out. Instead I’ve got a new activity. It’s called “driving to the dump”.

My car could probably drive itself there and back, we’re at the dump so often.

Usually half of Falkirk is there too, sorting rubbish and doing the local council’s job for them. It’s going to get worse. Falkirk Council’s decision to cut general waste collections to just 12 a year has gone down like a bag of nappies at a recycling convention.

There are real fears it will lead to vermin, smell, fly-tipping and rubbish-strewn streets.

Most families are already struggling with the current three-weekly collections. That’s why we’re either in our cars, pumping out CO2 emissions driving to and from the dump or pleading with elderly neighbours to share their bin.

Now there are hints that council staff will scour our bins to check what we’re throwing out. When, exactly, did Falkirk move to Soviet Russia?

We’re told the council is strapped for cash. But look at senior staff’s bumper salaries and pensions: Falkirk’s chief executive earns £131,000 a year, almost as much as the Prime Minister.

While councillors congratulate themselves for being the darlings of the green brigade, householders are left wondering where their council tax is going.