Miriam Wells' Analysis on wheelie bins (The Argus, April 4) was indeed, as the subtitle said, "the story behind them" - that is, it gave the arguments offered by Cityclean in favour of the scheme, with little critical evaluation.

Let me mention a few of the points where they fail to persuade.

"Wheelie bins replace black bin bags" - but we have never put out black bin bags and the same is true of many other houses.

It seems a gross waste of money to provide wheelie bins for people who at present place bags in perfectly good dustbins.

Where black bin bags are now left out, why is that? Almost certainly, it is because the council has permitted division of larger properties into many small units without ensuring that adequate storage space for dustbins is provided, or landlords have not provided dustbins.

Surely that problem should be approached directly?

"Wheelie bins encourage recycling by stopping people throwing out too much rubbish" - but is their capacity significantly different from that of conventional dustbins?

I don't think so and it could just as easily be ruled that no more will be collected than fits into one dustbin.

Some correspondents who favour wheelie bins clearly live in areas where the physical conditions differ from those in the Preston Park area.

Those of us who object to them here do not necessarily think they are equally unsuitable everywhere. What is needed is a scheme that takes local variation into account.

-Jennifer Goldie, Brighton