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Dear Editor South Lanarkshire Council have obviously decided that a tough love approach is needed to deal with the amount of recycling going to landfill.
I’m not really sure such a tactic is going to work for the simple reason that a lot of people just don’t care enough about recycling, and the world in which we live, and will just put most of their packaging and materials in the main ‘black bin’.
We can argue until we are blue in the face about the importance of recycling but these days people have to feel like there is something in it for them.
Threatening them with an unemptied bin they will need to sort out before it can be collected a month later is using a stick where a carrot should be used instead.
What is needed now is a thorough review of our recycling arrangements as a nation, with an action plan that could be rolled out across council areas then drawn up.
I read that the council spent £91,000 sending things that could have been recycled to landfill.
Maybe we’d get somewhere if residents were rewarded the more they recycled; carrot rather than the stick.
Via email Dear Editor Once again I am compelled to write to your paper regarding the absolute nonsense that Nationalists write about Brexit.
I refer specifically to Angela Crawley’s column in last week’s paper.
I’m not sure on what basis she states ‘it is clear that Brexit is having a negative impact on people’s lives.’
I have a large circle of friends and acquaintances and this certainly does not apply to any of my friends.
The most adverse impact on my life is the constant nonsense issued by Nationalists, and their continual moaning about Brexit and independence.
She also throws in various spurious facts about loss of jobs, potential fall in GDP, more expensive holidays and all sorts of unsubstantiated claims.
Bearing in mind that Scotland’s trade with the rest of the UK is about