WE have been on a fortnightly rubbish collections for quite a while now.

Ryedale District Council gave us a choice of bin size when we first went on to a wheelie bin collection and we chose the larger capacity one.

When the change was to be made and we were issued with the brown bin for garden rubbish, the blue bag for papers and the lidded box for bottle and tins we received the bigger capacity brown one too.

There are only two of us (and a dog) in the house and we find both bins more than ample for our needs.

We do struggle a bit with the newspapers because we take morning and evening editions, but we rarely use lidded box and when I last looked there was only one bottle and two tins in it.

I put this down to us eating a relatively healthy diet and not convenience foods which come with too much wasteful packaging.

Perhaps the people of York need to look at other aspects of their lifestyles before condemning the proposed new rubbish collections.

Gillian Sowray,

Main Street,

Hovingham, York.

Updated: 10:10 Monday, September 26, 2005