As someone who is conscious about my green footprint, I think it is horrible the lack of options there are when it comes to recycling in Tauranga.

Only plastics numbered one or two are acceptable in my green bin, however, in places like Auckland and even smaller towns like Whakatane they have the option of recycling plastic from one to eight.

On the Tauranga City Council website they say that more than 68 per cent of Tauranga kerbside waste sent to landfill has the potential to be recycled or decomposed- maybe there is a reason for this.

People get confused about what can and can't be recycled and admittedly some of it is laziness as well.

I know for a fact that there are many people out there like my parents who forget what can be recycled and can't read the number on the plastic, so often I end up fishing recyclable plastic bottles out of their bin.

The majority of plastic I have in my house also is either five or seven, which means I have to chuck them in the bin - adding to the landfill, when really it doesn't have to.

Why don't we have more options?

S Harris, Tauranga.