FOR many weeks and months, we have been separating our recycling refuse collection from ordinary refuse into purple sacks for paper, clear plastic sacks for plastic bottles, foil, aluminum and tin cans and so on.

We have also taken glass bottles to the bottle bank. I now understand that we will be getting two wheelie bins per household, one for all recycling rubbish including glass bottles and the other for normal rubbish.

On phoning our local councillor to check if we now put all our recycling rubbish into one bin, he confirmed this was the case and that presently all sacks are emptied on to one conveyor belt when they get back to the recycling centre to be sorted.

Can someone then please explain to me why we have been conscientiously separating everything over the past months, when at the end of the day the whole lot is thrown together on a conveyor belt?

What a waste of taxpayers' money must have been spent on all the different coloured plastic sacks!

MARY BILLINGHAM,

Worcester.