WELL done Annie for exposing the dangers posed to animals, both wild and farm, of carelessly discarded litter.

People have become incredibly lazy and selfish with their own litter and the consequences of this filthy and unacceptable habit are now sadly unavoidable.

Animals have a hard enough time avoiding the dangers caused by contempt of the public and local authorities, whether it be the refusal to cut lethal ragwort and clear litter, especially plastic, from roadside verges, or wilful harm from people dumping their rubbish into fields of grazing animals.

One ring pull from a can, if ingested by a grazing animal, will produce toxins in the stomach resulting in a horrendous death.

We all have our bins emptied whether we pay council tax or are exempt, so there’s no excuse.

The charging for green bins, however, coupled with the council tip hours being reduced, will exacerbate an already serious problem.

I can think of other ways the council could save money and suggest reducing the very generous expenses they each enjoy, giving important maintenance contracts to firms who can afford to employ sufficient people to do the job, stop wasting money on projects in which local people are not remotely interested, and so on and so on.

I’m afraid there is much to be done.

We need some radical thinking and strict, enforced changes to our present way of living and government.

JANE MARTIN Alderbury