With regard to F. Lukich's comments on recycling (The Weekend Sun, February 12), I totally agree that we should be making more of an effort to cut down our waste and recycle more. Putting mountains of waste into landfills is not the ideal solution. But what is the point in putting ‘recycling' items into separate bins at our gates only to have them piled high somewhere doing absolutely nothing, not being ‘recycled' but just sitting or being chucked into landfills and leaching all manner of nasties into the ground and atmosphere?

Why are our councils not making more effort to build proper ‘recycling' stations like those overseas that actually do recycle waste? Oh, that's right, they can't afford to do something sensible and necessary because they squander rate payer's phenomenal rates on the nice-to-haves not the necessities, like recycling stations that would do something positive and help our environment.

I feel manufacturers should be taking some of the blame for a lot of waste. Plastic packaging, water bottles and disposable nappies should be phased out. They are not necessary, they are simply convenient.

Most people are doing a great job of recycling. But we could all try harder.

S Gussey, Tauranga.