Sir – With regard to the ongoing waste and recycling dilemma, could someone explain to me why it is the end user ie the householder, who is dumped on with the problem and not those organisations who are the source of the mountains of paper, plastic, polystyrene etc. that fill our green boxes, our blue boxes, our green wheelie bins and finally landfill sites?
It really is adding insult to injury for the public not only to be asked to fund waste recycling through ever increasing local rates, but also to be asked to blight our own personal environments with weird and wonderful arrays of boxes and buckets, while manufacturers and packaging companies seem to get away with it.
What are the disincentives in place to dislodge the mindset of such companies? Can they not change their behaviour? We’ve all managed it. We’ve had to.
Kate Lack (Mrs), Oxford
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