Last week we have received three bins for the rubbish disposal. A small one which is supposed to be for food scraps. This would be easily big enough for our fortnightly rubbish. We don't need a bin for food scraps as we compost them with the garden waste.

Then we received a big bin with a red lid. This is supposed to be for the rubbish. We will be struggling to fill it because we don't produce much rubbish. We will do our best to fill it every time, after all we are paying for this amount of rubbish for the landfill and we don't get any credit for not filling our bin.

Then we received another even bigger bin with a yellow lid. We don't need this bin either as everything fits easily into the other bin and it is less work that way.

If the council wants to reduce the amount of rubbish everyone produces they should introduce a pay-as-you-throw system which was suggested in several submissions - one of them from me - and which would have been the only fair system for rubbish disposal.

Uli Suerst, Ohauiti