An item (Sept 22) quoted Basildon Council as saying “Every household will need one of the kitchen caddies”.

I certainly won’t. With careful buying and composting, all that is left for me as what will be kitchen caddy items is the odd chop or fish bone and pieces of Stilton rind.

Now they can go with the green waste, I will just drop them in the green bin instead of dropping them in the rubbish bag.

Now my one quarter full swing bin liner will be going out once a month instead of once a fortnight.

In these austere times it would have been a better idea to ask who wanted them.

Bob Rust
The Slades
Basildon