The article ‘Gold in coffee grounds' in The Weekend Sun (September 12) just beggars belief.

Is the Bay of Plenty Regional Council serious about providing funding for picking up coffee grounds for free?

The article states that a contractor - no doubt they're not doing it for free - will call and collect the left over grounds for free.

There will be another shiny-bottomed consultant to manage it all. Bugger me!

No wonder us ‘bow-backed' ratepayers are still wailing, what next?

What is the true cost of all this ‘save the world' stuff?. No doubt the consultant will be well rewarded for polishing his/her chair with his/her backside. Having a little experience in the coffee business, we never had any problem with used coffee grounds, we always had a queue of people who supplied their own buckets and collected it for the garden.

Is this planet going a*** over or what!

L McKinnon, Tauranga City.