Joe Chapman commented in last months Marlpit of the dumping of non-recyclable (is there such a word?) items adjacent to the recycling bins at the Village Hall car park on Rectory Road. This prompts me to ask what lazy idiot saw fit to dump a large carpet alongside the road by the bridge on the road called 'The Hill' leading from Rectory Road to St James.

To get the carpet there would require a vehicle of some sort, so why could the person responsible not take it straight to the dump at Maynard Wood? As the man says 'I don't believe it!'.

Alan Groves
Dog Walker

Since writing the above I've noticed that the offending carpet has been removed, not by the person responsible for the dumping but it appears by some youngsters for use in building a woodland 'camp'.

Regardless, the point remains that dumping of any unwanted item in the wrong place is both unnecessary and anti-social. Also why do those that go under the bridges over the railway at Rectory Road and The Hill to meet and to have the odd drink need to smash the bottles afterwards? Glass fragments can be extremely damaging to animal paws.

Please think!