To N Harris who hasn't met anyone who supports council-led kerbside recycling, I'm a supporter.

It's about participation and doing something better with our waste than burying it in a hole, all mixed together.

In our street, only about half the households who put out the rates-funded glass crate also put out a user-pays recycling bin.

They put out mixed rubbish instead. It's not about those of us who already compost, recycle, reduce and re-use.

Also, our user-pays large-sized recycling bin costs us more for the year than the proposed comprehensive rates-funded service.

Ruth Underwood, Mount Maunganui