IT is now blatantly obvious that Bury Council is wasting council taxpayers' money. I refer to the issue of a brown wheelie bin for garden waste to every household. Every household, that is, even those who do not have any garden to speak of, such as myself and other terraced properties where I live in the Ringley Road West area of Outwood.

At the front of my house is a small plot which is mostly concrete. I have a hedge which is clipped twice a year, and the back yard is entirely concrete. I certainly do not have use for the large brown wheelie bin delivered to my house last weekend and as far as I can see, neither do the majority of terraced houses nearby.

Some terraced houses in Bury don't even have a front garden but presumably, they too have been issued with brown bins.

I understand that the intention in the future is to provide us with yet another bin, this time for glass, cans and textiles, and that ultimately the existing grey bin will be emptied once a fortnight, alternating with the emptying of the brown bin and the glass, cans and textile bin on "recycling week".

At the moment, some households have a full grey bin every week. Some are overflowing and people put black bags into other residents' bins not as full as their own. What will happen when these grey bins are emptied once a fortnight? Rubbish will be piled everywhere, and we will have a plague of rats and other vermin.

I think the council should have found out who wanted a brown bin and who didn't before issuing one to every household in the borough.

As for someone visiting to conduct a "waste audit" (sorting the material in the bin into that which can and which cannot be recycled), who is going to do this job of rummaging through dustbins? I have never heard of such "rubbish" in my life. I cannot imagine the binmen be sorting through every bin to make sure the "correct" waste is in each one. Just imagine how long that would take!

MRS H.M. CHIDGEY.