Recycling effort ends at the waste bin

I AM prepared to take up the challenge of Carys O’Neill on domestic waste reduction (Irish Examiner letters, April 13).

I live in a flat without a garden in Cork. I’ve lived in Spain and London and am quite used to separating for recycling glass, plastic, paper, tins, milk and wine cartons, and vegetable waste.

In my village in Spain, shops that sell batteries also collect used ones rather than allow them into landfill or incineration.

But how can I recycle in Cork?

I carry paper to a skip I know about and I hope the owners don’t know about me. There are bottle banks on the college campus, but as for the rest, there is nothing I can do.

I don’t have a car and it seems excessive to take a taxi out to the city recycling depot. So it goes in the waste bin.

If the O’Neill family is happy to collect my waste and take it away for recycling, then I am happy to sort it for them and leave it on the pavement where I hope it will not get in the way of pedestrians.

Peter Bromwich

Box 311

2 Crawford Hall

Wandesford Quay

Western Road

Cork