Madam,

I sympathise with Gwynedd Council as it faces the continuing onslaught of treasury funding cuts, which will cause further austerity, cash crises, closure of key services and other economic woes. Tough times and empty coffers are a recipe for joblessness and hardship in local communities.

Hopefully the leading players in ‘Team Gwynedd’ will not further alarm the public with talk of stopping the use of public waste bins in 2020.

Pyramids of dumped waste and even lumps of dumped take-away food will be an open invitation to armies of pests to attend all-night feasts at rat-feeding stations. This could be a recipe for disaster. A sprinkling of repellent rats will soon multiply into a squirming hoard of filth. Rats relish rubbish and even in the 21st century continue to defy man’s efforts at extermination/control.

It is hoped that our pest control authorities will have sufficient means to keep a lid on the situation, as bacterial disease can be lethal. One imagines that the World Health Organisation has guidelines regarding pollution of this nature.

Yours etc,

E Roberts, South Beach, Pwllheli.

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