Madam,

This week I had a letter regarding charges of nearly £40 a year for emptying our brown garden waste. We are now going to be charged for disposing of what must be the cheapest recycling product to dispose of – grass and garden debris – and which is also made into compost for profit, may I add. What will be next? Charges for the blue bins, and other recyclable products? Is the county council not trying to charge us for something we are already paying to dispose of? The Dolgellau area is already vastly overcharged for council tax in relation to amenities, so is there any need to penalise the resident in what is relatively a poor area already? The local residents won’t pay for brown bins, or extra to empty blue as this will most definitely be next, and then the local councils will get their three-weekly collections of green bins which they have been after all along. The next step then is that we will be charged for entering the recycling centre or that will have to go as it will be too expensive to keep. We will then see a rise in fly-tipping and a reduction in recycling.

Surely we are going backwards and this is just another charge to yet again line the pockets of the Gwynedd council.

Yours etc

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