Very mixed message on bins for recycling
ILIVE in Baillieston and I’m a keen recycler trying to do my bit for the environment so you can imagine my surprise (followed by anger) when the bin lorry passed by on December 27 and picked up the green (household refuse) and the brown bin (garden and food refuse) and emptied them in the same lorry.
So I would like you to ask the Cleansing Department and Glasgow City Council to explain why we citizens are asked to separate the various refuses when in the end they may well end up been mixed together?
If I ask the question, the Council or the Cleansing deptartment will not bother answering me but you, been in my opinion the ONLY Glasgow newspaper worth reading, may be able to get an answer.
FDM via email
WE are under pressure to recycle yet where I stay they have removed half of blue bins. So now all I have collected will go in main bin as the blue one is full.
DB Glasgow
REGARDING the recent rant in your paper at people going to Boxing Day sales ‘who should have better things to do with their time than queue up to shop for a bargain’, well, for one thing, they are keeping the town alive.
Have you nothing better to do than than sit and write, complaining about people having nothing better to do?
They are doing something for our economy and you are bleating to a newspaper about something that is not even passable as a problem.
Jeffrey Stephen Chadwick via email
PS Keep up the good work on the Glagow Evening Times, loving the new format of the paper, especially the family notices.
AS a New Zealander, I am sure citizens from many Commonwealth countries have a strong affection for Scotland, not only your lovely scenery, but also your culture.
Recently there have been many discussions here about the SNP wanting a referendum for Scottish independence. In our view, this would be an absolute catastrophe for Scotland and will also have detrimental effects on other Commonwealth countries. Several include the Union Jack on their flags. If Scotland were to leave the wonderful United Kingdom, the Union Jack would change. Would this mean Scotland would forego the monarchy and become a republic? I sincerely hope Scottish citizens will appreciate that irrespective of Brexit, they will be better off with Scotland remaining.
Stuart Andrews Auckland