REGARDING The Citizen's front page article of February 6, So Where Does Our Rubbish End Up?.

The Preston City Council's web site boasts how well they are doing to recycle waste in Preston, even receiving £365,000 funding from tax payers to further this excellence (web page press release December 4, 2002).

Can they explain why then, after contacting the council about our bags and boxes of carefully sorted and packed cans, bottles and newspapers (all 100 per cent recyclable), they said they were busy with all the waste over the Christmas period.

I thought this would be obvious and plans would have been drawn up.

I was informed a collection would be made on the January 11. It was, under the cover of darkness at 7.50am, when all carefully packed items from the 129 houses in our area were thrown into one dust card at great speed.

It left the area with the 100 per cent recyclable waste now only fit for landfill.

Come on Preston City Council, recycling is for 52 weeks of the year, not just when we are not busy.

Andrew Vincent, Foregate, Fulwood.