I AM shocked to see people complaining in the Citizen about recycling bins and wheely bins. Where we are living there is no such scheme in place, therefore everything goes to plastic bags and we are forced to put together garden rubbish, glass, paper and non degradable items.

I lived for five years in Switzerland, where you have days of collections for each type of rubbish paper, glass, ferrous cans, non ferrous cans, garden and degradable waste and you pay a fine for not recycling.

So far I have not seen any real political commitment to recy-cling here, just words.

Dr N Duffy, Ulverston.