I MUST object for myself and all gardeners on reading (Echo, October 27) that Poole ratepayers will be unable to put garden waste in the black bin in future.

What are we supposed to do with it? We compost every bit of green off every branch, but are unable to accommodate all the wooded trimmings and small branches.

You will now be saving £184,000 with them not going into landfill, with this can we now have a green bin like the other half of town, or will we have to go back 30 years when we used to burn them.

Rubbish is not rubbish when it is used for landfill in the right place, in the ’60s and ’70s when I was building we used to be able to take all our building rubble plus house rubbish including furniture to the tip of the day, free.

This was at various times in Kings Park, on Turbary Common, on Baiter, at the old clay pit at Oakdale, and a huge tip at Hamworthy, and to stop flooding at Kinson.

These are now valuable open spaces and some of them built on. In China where some of it goes now they will be building on it in 20 years time.

If we were to get out of the EU we could use all of our waste, plus all of the south coast hard core to gradually reclaim Holes Bay, plan a new garden city complete with 2,000 waterside homes like Palm Beach.

In 60 years it could be the envy of Europe – Dubai does it, why not us.

Use it, don’t waste it.

KEN ADAMS, Glen Road, Poole