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We need to start recycling kitchen waste
• HILARY Claire is right to ask why Camden Council doesn’t recycle more kitchen waste (Why don’t we recycle food waste as well?, February 15). We should because it’s about 30 per cent of total waste and is therefore about the biggest win in recycling terms.
Camden has traditionally been wary of kitchen waste collections because they have been seen as difficult and unhygienic. But it’s something we need to get to grips with.
Other councils like Islington do it perfectly well. This is something the new Camden Sustainability Task Force will be discussing at our April meeting. If anyone would like to join us, they would be very welcome.
Of course the biggest win of all would be to compost on site and return our kitchen waste to the flower beds. I hope we’ll start setting up composting facilities on our council estates in the not too distant future.
Cllr ALEXIS ROWELLl
(Lib Dem) Town Hall
Judd Street, WC1
• WHAT a great idea it would be for Camden Council to provide bins for recycling fresh food waste. Camden has really embraced recycling for paper, card, plastic, paper, glass and cans where other councils are far more limiting.
They will also collect white goods, furniture and garden waste. Whilst it is not generally practical for people living in flats to compost fresh food waste, I have often wished there was a way to do this.
I recycle paper, plastic, card and glass but since I use mostly fresh produce, fill numerous bin bags weekly with fresh waste from fruit and vegetables. I have often wondered if it would be possible to recycle fresh food waste but thought it would be too smelly with a weekly collection.
TERRI BERG
Fordwych Road, NW2
• THERE is a disappointing the lack of progress on recycling generally. It seems to be still mainly paper, cardboard and bottles with some plastic containers. Almost everything else is directed to the landfill containers.
Why aren’t more plastic goods and worn out textiles recycled?
ROZ CULLINAN
Camden Mews
NW1
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