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SIR - Recent correspondence in your columns suggested that the council implements processes that are excessively complex, at our expense.

I received evidence of this recently when my two green bags were not emptied, after heavy rain.

The yellow tags attached to them suggested a maximum weight of 15 kg - surprisingly light, but the operatives do have to lift several hundred a day.

I disposed of them myself at the tip, but understood the point being made.

I was surprised to receive a letter from the council two days later re-stating the weight limits and with copious advice on alternative ways to dispose of biodegradable rubbish (translated in eight languages on the reverse).

My guess is that 99 per cent of Winchester residents would have understood the lesson implicit in the yellow tags - moderate the weight of your green bags or take them down to the tip yourself (as I did).

But, someone has chosen to implement a system that requires the operatives to record all yellow tags issued, and the address, and then creates and posts letters (with expensive translations) to all offenders, regardless of the inevitable absence of effect.

I commend the Boris Johnson initiative to George Beckett and others: if you employ large numbers of intelligent expensive people they will find things to do, and add vast unsupportable complexity and cost to your operation.

So, stop it.

Terence F Wall, Westminster Gate, Winchester.

3:45pm Wednesday 9th July 2008

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