WITH reference to Dartford Borough Council's recycling boxit scheme.

We are being asked to place "dry" recyclable materials in the provided box and then leave it outside for collection without the lid.

What if it is raining? Won't the paper get wet?

What if it is windy? Won't paper blow about in the road?

If this happens, who will clear up the mess?

Why supply a lid and ask us to write our name and street on it and then ask us not use it?

Is it so grumpy old people such as myself can refer to it if we forget who we are and where we live?

If the council had provided a second wheelie bin it would only need to make the collection once every two weeks and the collectors and elderly householders would not have to lift boxes.

In the provided printed guide where it refers to refuse collection it states "If you can't lift your wheelie bin, we can't either".

I don't think I could even lift an empty wheelie bin, never mind a full one.

And I have yet to see a refuse collector lift a wheelie bin on their own either.

Whoever dreamed up this silly scheme or wrote the guide must have been having a bad day at the office.

Alan Wells, Clayton Croft Road, Wilmington