IF our city council took the trouble to research what is required by its residents when preaching about waste recycling it would be far more successful.

We have a black bin for waste, a green bin for bottles etc and a bag for papers.

A recent leaflet from the council said houses with no porch or drive should not have boxes because they must not obstruct the pavement.

Why do we have boxes when our street is a row of terrace houses?

When the council operatives make a collection the boxes are left thrown all over the street.

The same happens to the bags for papers which blow away.

Most of the residents of our street don't bother to put out boxes, and very few put out papers because they don't have bags any more.

Now we are told we are going to get bins for garden waste. The houses in our district don't have gardens. How do you compost concrete?

I refuse to have a bin for garden waste and if one is left at my house it will be dumped in the street. Another waste of rate payers' money.

B K Lawson,

Chatsworth Terrace,

York.

Updated: 11:19 Friday, August 19, 2005