I have just received my water rates from the Tauranga Council, included with it is a drawing of the rubbish bins we have to pay another very large fee for.

There is no way that I can get all those bins in
my garage.

I already have a bin for glass. Why do I need another?

Be prepared to have four of your bins sit on the verge until you collect them.

We already have a rubbish bin (not used as plastic bags are mandatory).

We take our papers, plastics, bottles, etc to the recycling centre.

Whoever made this decision needs to be checked by a psychiatrist as surely no sane person could come up with this idea.

The icing on the cake is the looney tooney idea that we should put our food scraps in a bin and then sit it in our garage or house itself (no room in garage for all the bins), for a fortnight.

You are joking? No you are not.

The smell in our houses of rotting and decaying food is going to be really wonderful.

People of Tauranga bombard the Tauranga Council members with emails, Facebook, Twitter, and any other means of communication nowadays to repeal this catastrophic bylaw, that, if put in motion, will be felt by all of us for many years as another Tauranga Council folly.

T Johnson, Gate Pa.