SIR - I do not like the fortnightly bin collection for non-recyclable waste.

I am a huge advocate of recycling. I compost everything that I can. I pass on as many yoghurt pots and non-recyclable plastics to my daughter's nursery to be made into art, rather than thrown out as waste.

I have a three-year-old daughter and twin one-year-old boys.

The main contents of my bin are nappies. The stench from my bin after one week is unbearable. After two weeks it is just unimaginable.

I would far rather have this collected weekly from a health and hygiene point of view.

So much so that I am considering the domestic rubbish collections flyer that has come round offering to collect rubbish weekly.

This will be a ridiculous duplication of something that I am paying the council for.

If I take this service up and others do, can we have a reduction in our council tax?

I do not need more than my normal bin despite having six people in my household.

I do often need more capacity for my recycling bin.

I noticed that last week the council sent someone round to look in our bins. I assume that this was to judge how full our bins were.

Not a very sensible time to do this, the week after half-term when many would have been away and not around to fill their bins to their usual capacity.

If the council is saying that these fortnightly collections do not pose a health or hygiene risk, I would refute this.

My (small) kitchen bin is not emptied as often, due to all my recycling and composting, I regularly get maggots in the bin.

I believe that Winchester City Council could do more in terms of recycling, specifically Tetra Paks.

I have already written to the council on this matter and been told that their recycling partners do not recycle Tetra Paks.

This is simply not good enough. The council should be teaming up with a partner that does.

The amount of landfill from Tetra Paks just does not bear thinking about.

Emma Stokes, Alresford Road, Winchester.