• PETER Tahari (Letters, February 16) needs to get off his high horse and stop whingeing about food waste collections.

I live in Fordwych Road, a very long street, which runs parallel all the way from Kilburn station to the end of Shoot Up Hill. There are hundreds of properties all converted into flats or one-room apartments numbering between four and14 per house. Many, including my flat, have very small kitchens. I do not have any kitchen space to fit a food waste bin and in any case, the bins are very small and I would fill one every two days with coffee grinds, egg shells, fruit and vegetable scrapings, leftover cooked food etc.

After a few days the bin would be stinking every time it was opened and my dogs can get the lids open within five seconds. So it’s a no from me. Or perhaps he expects us to put them near our waste and recycling bins… great for the urban foxes. Does he expect the residents to go up and down the stairs all day to take their smelly food waste and plates to scrape. Nobody has the time or inclination for that and It’s not going to happen. We already have five large lidded bins and three recycling bins. I alone fill two recycle bins a week and the four owner/ occupiers in this house responsibly put their household rubbish in tied, black, sacks in our bins, which are full by the weekend following the now weekly Tuesday collections.

Streets such as Mangrove and Inglewood Road to mention just two, have very small frontages and cannot even accommodate the bins needed now.

The streets will be littered with bins that cannot fit on their properties, masquerading as street furniture in addition to much more fly-tipping for pedestrians to navigate around. It’s a disgrace.
Camden need to use a modicum of intelligence and have a fast rethink regarding rubbish collection. We need this weekly and recycling could be collected every two weeks.

TERRI BERG, NW6