I REFER to some information on the from the Dorset for You website.

It reads: ‘On 28 January 2014, the Dorset Waste Partnership Joint Committee agreed to reduce the network of mini recycling centres in Dorset, starting in Christchurch, East Dorset, Purbeck and North Dorset from June 2014.

“This is because of lower use of recycling banks since the introduction of the ‘recycle for Dorset’ collection service,'recycle for Dorset' collection service the high cost of maintaining banks and problems with fly-tipping and misuse by some traders’.

Are these people serious? Hambro Road car park is currently missing its paper recycling bin, a glass bank, and a plastic containers bin.

The recycle bins in the Hambro Road car park were full to overflowing when they disappeared.

The reason that they are so used is that many of the terraced houses in the surrounding area do not have the space for the large array of bins now supplied by the ‘new’ system.

I can only just fit the two largest bins, for recycling and household waste on my property.

I rely on the local glass recycling particularly as I do not have space for the bins at my home.

Since the ’plan’ seems to involve everyone driving their waste and recycling around the island, and in the future taking it all to Lodmoor, would it be reasonable to assume that the cost for the waste ‘service’ will be lowered for the residents of Portland, to compensate for all the fuel that would be used by individual residents to move the waste?

It seems nonsense to increase recycling by doing away with the recycling bins.

Is it in fact a cost driven cut, to try and compensate for the multi million pound hole in the budget, due to the mismanagement of the unpopular and user unfriendly waste ‘service’?

Jim Potter, East Street, Portland