Just like Joseph V. Caruana's wife (Sorting Rubbish Is A Waste Of Time, October 21), I meticulously sort and clean rubbish ready for recycling and put the bags out religiously on Thursdays. Unfortunately, just like my fellow correspondent, I have seen all the rubbish being put into the same truck. Over the last few months, I have telephoned the appropriate authorities several times pointing this out and they have assured me that the bags are kept separately. I'm sorry but I don't believe them, when I have seen it being mangled up altogether.

Please, please if we take the trouble to separate the garbage and want to help save our planet a separate truck must be sent round on Thursdays (frequently the bags are still there on Friday so that's why they go with the rubbish, on Friday) to collect only the grey bags. In that way we would see that the authorities concerned are as serious as we are about recycling.

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