I AGREE wholeheartedly with Tom Harrison's assertion last week that the refuse collection service in Great Sankey is first class.

However, I do not agree that this should become a fortnightly service as opposed to the present weekly collection.

In our household we recycle virtually everything from small batteries, cans, bottles and cardboard, through to bits of metal and any other recyclable material.

We visit Gatewarth tip on almost a weekly basis, (particularly with garden waste as the council does not provide small green bins) and supplement these visits by taking any remaining materials to the Asda collection point at Westbrook when we go shopping.

Like Tom, we are a two-person household.

However, because we do not have access to the back garden for a large wheelie bin, we opted for a smaller one when this service was introduced.

It would, therefore, be impracticable for us, despite our recycling, to wait two weeks for the bin to be emptied.

The constraints of fortnightly collection are not only relevant to our household but to those households with large families, particularly in light of the recent edict that bins which are so full that the lids cannot be closed will not be emptied.

The question also arises regarding older or infirm people having to heave out a much heavier bin containing two weeks waste.

While the council can claim that there is a pull out service' to accommodate these people, many older people are very proud and do not avail themselves of such a service as they see it as undignified to do so.

In addition, there is the question of hygiene to consider.

Does the council really think that waste food, perhaps deposited in the bin the day after the collection, even though wrapped, should remain there, decomposing, for two weeks?

I'm pleased Bob Williams, head of communications at WBC, welcomes debate about choices available and commits to consultation on this issue.

Perhaps he could also take on board the question of small green bins for garden waste as there seems no logical reason why these should not be made available in the same way that the smaller black bins are.

S BROADHEAD Great Sankey