I HAVE just read the recycling article in the Trafford Metro News (July 18). I am really looking forward to this recycling service. As I am originally from Germany I have recycled for over 10 years. I really like to do something good for the environment and so I am happy to get these new bins in September.

I share a house with two other girls from Germany and we had a lot of discussions since I heard of the new recycling scheme. I can’t understand why some people are too lazy to recycle, and why they don’t understand that this is something we have to do.

We should thank the people who decided that we will get bins to recycle our waste. It’s to help us to do something good for the environment. I read the Q&A in Metro News with great interest, but a lot of questions just made me angry. I really hope that there are a lot of people who will take the recycling seriously and hope it works out well.

TATJANA PAEHLKE, Stretford

REGARDING the new recycling bins, I agree with the idea and concept of the new bins, but this is typical of the idiotic ideas of someone at the council.

For the last few years the black bin has been used for general household rubbish, but now suddenly we are being asked to use the new grey bin for waste, when the existing black bins already smell of putrid waste.

Surely it would make more sense to use the new clean grey bin for the glass and plastic. Am I being cynical or do the council not have a modicum of common sense?

LEN WHEAWILL, Flixton

I NOTICE that no provision can/will be made for recycling of plastic packaging.

This is one of the most potentially harmful forms of refuse.

Yet plastic bottles WILL be dealt with. This is nonsense.

The STATE should act either to encourage/enforce a move AWAY from widespread use of

plastic packaging or to provide a means of reprocessing it if none already exists.

I should thing that plastics could for the most part be turned into usable fuel oil (halocarbon-based plastics exempted.)

The world-wide use of plastics for domestic purposes was (in retrospect) a disastrous blunder, the full extent of which is only now becoming apparent – Phalates. PCBs leaching into ecosystems, minute plastic particles effecting basic oceanic organisms, plastic bags choking birds etc.

RJ PEACH, Lloyd St, Altrincham

FURTHER to your article publishing the responses received from residents in Trafford (Metronews 18/07/08) concerning the proposal of Trafford to introduce up to four recycling bins per household.

I am concerned about the impracticability of storing all these extra bins, their unsightly appearance on the house front and local amenity, the cost of implementing and running this scheme to the borough (and ultimately our council taxes).

From my personal experience, there are adequate facilities within the borough for resident to bring their recycled wastes.

Enforcing each household to have additional bins is against the spirit of voluntary recycling - which will lead to more Big Brother tactics and certain householders facing fines or prosecution, if their bins accidentally or otherwise happen to contain the wrong type of waste.

If there are individuals or households who find it difficult to avail themselves of the public recycling facilities, then let them apply to the council for these additional bins and bin collections – which can easily be tracked these days.

This therefore fits the resource to the demand, and saving on the Council’s budget and ultimately, our council tax.

From the responses given it’s fairly obvious that the council does not want people to opt out of the scheme – so they can justify the additional expense.

RICHARD GRAY, Firtree Avenue, Sale

I READ with interest the proposals to issue us with four bins. Trafford insist that this is important to them.

I want to know if it is so important why, if residents like myself who think recycling is important go to the Chester Road tip at 7.45pm, we find all of the labelled recycling hatches closed so that all of it has to go in the general waste?

I understand they want a quick get away but surely they could leave one hatch of each recyclable medium open!

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