Expensive books dumped

I write after thousands of pounds worth of educational books were thrown in the bin in Oban.

It is essential that our council’s leadership makes sure that hard-pressed council taxpayers are being provided with value for money. This in my opinion is a failure to do so.

The council leader talks a great deal about environmentalism but how is this environmental?

This is particularly saddening given the fact that so many teachers often struggle for ample educational booklets. My constituents are asking why our council taxes are having to go up when mountains of perfectly good books are being thrown in the skip? These expensive books could be put to much better use than this. Councillor Alastair Redman, Kintyre and

the Islands.