THE refuse collection changes have concerned me since I first heard about them. Now that they are introducing them in my road, I am outraged.

As the mother of a young baby, I am concerned for the hygiene of a bin full of nappies and cat litter, which is only collected once a fortnight.

At present our bin is full every week, to the extent that when we forgot to put it out one morning, the following week we had to find neighbouring bins with enough space to take our second week's worth of rubbish.

The weekly recycling will not help us much, as we don't drink alcohol or fizzy drinks and, therefore, have no cans or bottles, glass or plastic to recycle.

Neither do we have newspapers, nor discard large amounts of textiles or plastics - at least not the type that is accepted in the collection boxes.

Our recycle boxes will contain our weekly Shuttle and a small amount of junk mail and other paper, and not much more.

The suggestion that we buy products with less packaging is ridiculous, for it you need an item, you can't simply boycott I because it has excess packaging. And there is not much we can do about the cardboard boxes in which the items I order over the internet are posted in.

We can't take our rubbish to the tip, because we don't drive, and can't afford to have it removed.

I do agree with the principle of recycling, but suggest that it would be far better to have the boxes collected once a fortnight, and the bins once a week, as they do in Worcester and many other areas, or else Kidderminster is going to become full of uncollected rubbish.

At present with no hospital, no rubbish collections and such high council tax, Kidderminster is fast becoming an extremely unpleasant place to live.

FREYE RANDLE

Findon Street, Kidderminster