LIKE other correspondents, I believe that "wheelie bins" will go down as another expensive council-inspired disaster.

Their only advantage is that urban foxes, who currently live off the contents of our rubbish bags, will turn to eating our domestic and feral cat population, which will end the plague of cat excrement that is the bane of most gardeners!

Who is aware that after wheelie bins were introduced in other authorities, a system of fines (Labour stealth taxes) has also been introduced?

In Norfolk, mix "recycling" with "rubbish" and you get a red sticker on your wheelie.

Two red stickers and it's a fiver fine. Do it again and its an appearance before the local "Beak," and an up to a thousand pound fine.

Everything I hear of "recycling" strikes me as utter codswallop.

What has ever been done to introduce "economically recyclable packaging?" The answer is absolutely nothing.

That makes Labour's landfill taxes, Labour's wheelie bin fines, and Labour's now expensive army of recycling bureaucrats utterly pointless.

Instead of these recycling bureaucrats spending vast sums of our money, on different ways to collect our rubbish, and fine us for the "erroneous recycling" of commerce's packaging, why doesn't Labour tackle the problem at source by demanding that all packaging be returned to our stores?

Why should we pay landfill taxes and Labour (stealth tax) fines for the disposal of commerce's packaging? Shouldn't the polluter pay?

N TAYLOR,

Worcester.