AS residents of Newlands Drive, we feel the refuse collection should return to weekly collections.

The overflow of rubbish is a health hazard, which will cause a vermin problem.

Is the council prepared to spend more money on pest control?

Most residents find it difficult to stop their bins overflowing on a weekly basis; when asked for the larger bin they are refused, as the larger bins are for families of six and over.

Yet families of four or five have roughly the equivalent amount of rubbish as those with six people in a family.

Therefore, we have to take the excess rubbish ourselves to the local tip in Beckfield Lane, which has become totally chaotic with the traffic congestion rules they have enforced.

The council does not take cardboard or plastic, which we have to dispose of ourselves.

This is difficult for the residents who are elderly as well as ones with no transport.

The green bins are left standing empty as it is coming to winter.

The council has restrictions on what it will take for recycling, so that most of the rubbish has still to go in the grey bins. Therefore, we feel the percentage of recycled refuse does not justify the percentage of waste collection from two weeks instead of one week.

All it has done is make our streets, driveways and gardens unsightly and unhealthy.

A Kellett,

Newlands Drive,

Boroughbridge Road,

York.

Updated: 11:06 Thursday, November 03, 2005