MAY I add my voice to the many who have used these columns to express disgust at the council's ill-thought out plan to replace grey bins with smaller versions.
No mention has yet been made as to what will happen to the large bins if this plan goes ahead. The 2011 Census listed more than 116,000 households in Bolton, so that is the number of redundant bins which will have to be disposed of. It might be possible to recycle the plastic but at what cost to the public purse and the environment?
Surely if the council has a spare £2 million pounds to spend, this could be more effectively used to promote better recycling, or, as a previous correspondent wrote, to research ways to recycle the growing mountain of plastic pots and containers which, at present, are filling up our grey bins.
Mrs Dorothy Tonge
Station Road
Bolton
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