Recycling plastics
Sir, — In this plastic age, it is astonishing, and typically short-sighted, that there are no major recycling efforts being made for plastic products. The sheer volume of plastic materials consumed each day necessitates urgently an enormous recycling programme for plastics. Personally, I am loath to make use of consumer products in containers such as those for margarine, yoghurt, baby oil, shampoo, cooking oil, detergent, etc., (not to mention the staggering wastage from each flight on an aeroplane), knowing that here, in Christchurch, there is virtually nowhere I can get containers refilled. These are the sorts of products we should be boycotting with a vengeance. When will we be organised and motivated sufficiently to really do something about this very urgent problem? — Yours, etc., BARBARA BURTON. September 30, 1977.
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