Sir - Green Party Councillor Neil Laurenson called for our city council to recycle food waste last year and helped to arrange a cross party visit to a "best practice", Conservative-led South Oxfordshire Council to see the policy in action.

Despite seeing convincing evidence that such recycling can be both profitable and environmentally responsible, the idea was rubbished by our Tory group at the time and then again ridiculed during campaigning for the last council elections.

Now an influential group of MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee has called on all local authorities to ban the sending of left-over food to landfill as one way of helping to end our "disposable society". Mahatma Gandhi had it right - "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win".

Neal Murphy

Worcester Green Party