With reference to the report regarding wheelie bins in the Star July 31.

The whole situation has become laughable and promises more expense culminating in higher council tax to cover waste disposal in the Rushmoor area.

Some months ago it was reported that the proposal to discontinue weekly collections in favour of fortnightly had been dropped due to lack of support in the trial that had been carried out. The chief executive of Rushmoor had previously been reported as saying the matter was far from over – an earlier Star report.

But wait: There is a way around this and the electorate will never know or understand, thought the councillors (and or even just the chief executive).

We will halve the size of the present wheelie bins (after all 140-litre size of proposed bin is very nearly half of the present 240-litre bin) – and it will be collected weekly.

Someone else possibly had noticed that central Government were advocating a nice little earner by fining anyone who overfilled their bin or forgot to close it, by issuing an “on the spot payable fine”, yet a better reason to have smaller bins.

What does occur to me is that it costs the same amount to collect 140L as it does for 240L. The first option will mean less to handle at the depot.

But there will be more rubbish brought in by residents who have to use sacks because their bin is full. The annual total of waste, regardless of hare-brained schemes, will be just the same and will gradually increase.

Yet another thought: Are we residents going to have our bins replaced with a smaller bin even though the present bin is fully functional? Or will the experts at the council office realise that it would require extra cash to do that? Or will they do it anyway and suggest we may keep the large bin for garden waste (providing a payment is made)?

It never ceases to amaze how the present central administration will encourage simple regulations to be made more complex and to replace items or system that are perfectly okay just for the sake of change (or maybe more complex).
Unfortunately only politicians will think this is not so.

Remember the saying: ”If it ain’t broke, don’t mend it”.

Bryan Styles, Cabrol Road, Farnborough