REFERRING to the revised hours of opening at Salisbury dump or Wiltshire Council Recycling Centre as it is euphemistically entitled. (A concrete ramp leading to a narrow cul-de-sac lined by barriers and surrounded by rubbish surely merits the description of being a dump).

I thought the comment from a local businessman, whose livelihood was being wrecked by the resulting queues of vehicles, that whoever thought up the scheme must have an ‘IQ of a radish’ not only amusing but near the truth.

The decision was most likely that of a well-meaning but unworldly committee. The saying that a camel was a horse designed by a committee seems a better description. Maybe Salisbury dump is a recycling centre designed by another committee. Could it be a similar committee that came up with stick-on green labels for our composting bins that fall off in the rain (a bad batch being the official explanation) by any chance? They continue to fall off in the rain even after being replaced by ones from a good batch.

This level of incompetence and wastefulness begs the question of what other crackpot money saving schemes have Wiltshire Council got up their sleeve to inflict on their unsuspecting council taxpayers?

I think we should be told.

NIGEL WALSH Firsdown