I JUST do not get it. We are going to be asked to stump a fortune for green waste processing. Is this truly the green alternative? Has anybody actually carried out a green audit on this project?

Green waste should wherever possible be composted on site. In this way you save the cost of several tons of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere manufacturing the composting machines and collection vehicles not to mention the burning of fossil fuels in collecting the waste releasing more carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.

Depending on the processing method to be adopted that may further contribute to the ecological deficit. Householders who make their own compost will save on visits to the local gardening centre (burning more fossil fuels in the process) in order to buy compost that may well have been made by depleting peat bogs around the world.

Like fossil fuels peat is a non replaceable resource. The compost will be contained in polythene bags which will have been made from other non replaceable resources creating carbon dioxide in the process.

Bags are non-biodegradeable, thus creating a further environmental deficit.

And we have to pay for this valuable service which the district council is being forced to provide by the Deputy Prime Minister and Brussels in order to pay lip service to waste recycling targets that have not been fully thought through.

Like I said, I don't get it.

David J Moore, High Wycombe