DO those in charge of Wear Valley District Council have any brains?

Do they think we can all afford to pay our council tax every month just for them to waste it because they can't decide what to do with 15,000 green wheelie bins (Echo, May 26)?

Here's a good idea. How about giving them to the people who actually do care about the environment and let us put them to good use.

We keep hearing about the importance of recycling for the environment and how we are running out of landfill space, so isn't it time we had these bins instead of pathetic green boxes?

Why not make both landfill waste and recyclable collections weekly? This would give people the opportunity to recycle more, as well as providing more jobs for refuse collectors.

Surely this is fair to everyone.

People then have the chance to put their bins out every week if they need to. If they don't, they can put them out every two weeks, and how about recycling plastic instead of using up our precious oil reserves to manufacture new plastic?

Lorraine Lowdon, Sunnybrow, Crook, Co Durham