IN disposing of waste at the Foss Bank site over the past three months, I have sustained three punctures due to the sea of nails with which the site is strewn.

Now, some £45 poorer, I decide to use the advertised site for plastic bottles at Tesco on Clifton Moor. After a tour of the site I am left with my bottles, no skip in sight.

It is time for the experts in charge of the waste disposal farce to get their act together and remember they are there to serve us. The whole scheme seems to be a case of "we have to do something, this is something, therefore this is what we have to do".

While I appreciate their predicament, they cannot tell us to simply create less waste because some joker in Westminster is to fine them if they do not reduce landfill.

The one issue that would make a great contribution to the reduction of waste would be a facility to dispose of the packaging we are all submerged in by the retail stores.

In Poppleton we have a satisfactory garden waste disposal service. So why issue us with green waste bins?

To fill my green bin with plastic wrapping and bags rather than garden waste would be far better.

I read that there is to be a plastic collection in the near future. I would like to bet it doesn't include plastic wrapping. The council seems to be in denial over the existence of such waste.

The experts should take a look out of the window once in a while.

J A Whitmore,

Springfield Road,

Upper Poppleton, York.

Updated: 09:21 Thursday, October 13, 2005