The blue-bin blues

Re “Recycling is caught in a mess. Let’s clean it,” column, July 9

George Skelton’s column on the futility of recycling in this state only makes homeowners more doubtful on how to manage sorting.

Education of the public on blue-bin sorting is sorely lacking. Why not push the agencies and private companies to limit recycling to easy-to-understand refuse, such as clean newspaper, glass and hard plastic bottles without caps, and clean corrugated box material? Why not publish in plain English those few items that we can productively recycle?

We need to engender more faith on the part of residents that their blue-bin contents will actually be recycled. William K. Solberg Los Angeles

Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times RECYCLERS have become more strict about contaminated refuse that gets tossed into blue bins.