Wirral News readers have their say in the great wheelie bin maggots debate

Sep 30 2009 by Carrie Catterall, Birkenhead News

New Brighton

l AS someone who has had to put up with this and the appalling smell I can confirm that councillor Quinn is talking nonsense. Maggots are the larvae of bluebottles and flies which carry disease. When they land on food they contaminate it with bacteria including salmonella which can cause food poisoning.

So if a big breeding ground for flies is created, the potential for spreading disease is greatly increased.

Kathy Musker is not alone in her complaint; just ask anyone who had to put out their green bin in the warm weather.

It's just that talking to Wirral Council won't change anything, and is just like talking to the floor.

If £4.8million has been saved why have we not had the benefit of council tax reductions?

COLIN NUGENT

l I AM afraid that Cllr Jean Quinn reveals her ignorance by asserting that “maggots are not a health hazard”.

Has she forgotten that maggots are the larval stage of flies? Within a few days all those tiny, white, wriggling maggots will become big green/blue bottles being very active flying about, feeding on unmentionable rubbish, and then free to land on our food before we eat it.

The fact that maggots are associated with dirt and poor hygiene is probably the reason she has received a “small number of complaints”.

Most people that I know would much prefer a weekly collection of our green bins.

ROSEMARY WADDINGTON

Oxton

l HOW can Cllr Jean Quinn have the audacity to say there have only been a small number of complaints about the fortnightly bin collections? Has she not seen the floods of complaints that have been posted in to the News each week for the past two years?

If she is so out of touch with what's going on in our borough then she's in the wrong job.

So a note to Wirral Council – I do need my bin emptying once a week thank you and as a council tax payer, I demand it.

MRS K MADDOX

Thingwall