WELL poor old Jenny Danks (Wheelie bin stink, letters, September 21).

My two sons (aged seven and four) and I find with a little effort what we can recycle as much as possible.

We have a plastic tub in our kitchen, in which we put plastic, paper, glass and tin. At the end of each day my eldest son takes his young brother outside (rain or shine) and deposits said items into various plastic tubs and a great job they do. In our kitchen we also have a cupboard where we store our leftover cardboard.

When this has built up I throw it on the kitchen floor and my sons have great fun stomping it flat (good exercise too). I then get on my bike and take it on a journey of two miles to the recycling bin at Tesco's (no car needed).

I also have two compost heaps at the end of my garden, and only deposit one black bin bag full in my black bin every fortnight. And I clean my own bin, as does my 73-year-old mother.

G Pennington, Sherringham Drive, York.

P.S. Please don't report me to social services for using child labour.