Sir, - Landfill sites are closing down all over the country, manufacturers, builders etc. are being forced to recycle/separate as much as possible, and the rest of us are told that we simply cannot carry on expecting vast quantities of household rubbish to be taken to the dump anymore.
So can anyone explain to me why dairies continue to supply milk in plastic or waxed containers which cannot be recycled? Milk is the one commodity used by every house every day. Yet the last remaining dairy supplying glass bottles here in Cork (CMP) has now ceased to do so "due to lack of demand", and I am up to my ears in waxed cartons. Is the dairy industry not subject to the same waste production controls as other industries? - Yours, etc.,
Anne Walsh, Ballintemple, Cork.