SIR - I wonder if I am alone among your readers in being intensely irritated by the arrogant assumption that a ban on the use of plastic carrier bags in Saltaire would be widely welcomed (T&A, November 16).

The "Greens" are always exhorting others to do something to save the planet, but it seems to me that by picking on carrier bags they can ease their own consciences with little personal inconvenience. If they were really serious about making a difference, they should do something significant like giving up their cars and so save millions of times more crude oil than the tiny amount used to make a single bag.

I also object to being told what to do by a party that goes large on the rights of the individual. Have they, for instance, considered that what they are proposing could be in breach of article 14 of the Human Rights Act which prohibits discrimination arising from the holding of political or other opinions.

My opinion is that plastic carrier bags are a "good thing" and to ban them would infringe my human rights to carry my goods from a shop in a receptacle of my choosing.

Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley