Brown bin move makes no blooming sense

Sir,– I was astonished and dismayed to read in The Courier that Dundee City Council had decided to cancel all brown bin collections from November to March.

Do council officials not look at their gardens or visit the parks and countryside? If they had, they might have noticed that due to a lovely summer and autumn many of the summer annuals are still flowering and the grass is still growing. Therefore many gardeners have not yet started their autumn clean-ups.

It would have made more sense if the council had announced that due to the lovely weather they had made the decision to have two bin collections in November instead of one.

Could someone also tell me what is going to happen in the aftermath of Christmas?

All those real trees, wreaths, floral arrangements and Christmas plants will have to be dealt with. Does the council really think that people will take them to a skip?

Finally could someone please tell me what the men who man the collection vehicles will be doing for the next four months?

I assume they will still be employed by the council so where is the projected £45,000 saving to be made and will the council guarantee that they will inform us of the actual saving made, taking into account the cost of tidying up flytipping and dealing with people using other coloured bins for disposing of their garden waste?

Moira Nolan. Shamrock Street, Dundee.

A correspondent believes cutting brown bin collections make no sense.