Council bosses in Wokingham are defending a scheme which will mean people living there will be limited to less than 2 rubbish sacks a week.

Wokingham Borough Council insists it'll encourage everyone to send less rubbish to landfill and will also save just under a million pounds a year.

Under the proposals, from April 2012 households will have access to unlimited recycling boxes but only 80 rubbish bags a year.

Only the official rubbish sacks will be collected by the bin men.

Councillor David Lee is leader of Wokingham Borough Council. He says "We've based the figure on looking at what people generally throw away and we think that combined with the weekly waste collection, will be achievable.

"Large families will get more than the 80 bags a year- they'll get approximately 120 bags a year for a large family in a house.

"When you go back and people didn't have so much packaging put on the goods that they were buying, people were operating with one bin a week, so we definitely think it's achievable.

"But we have to do it, it will actually save the authority in the region of £1 million a year."