IN Sweden they generate electricity by burning rubbish. It is reported that the annual ‘throw away’ of Swedish people is about 15lbs per person. In the UK it is more in the region of 55lbs per person annually.

The Swedish system is so successful that they do not produce enough rubbish to maintain the required fuel for their power stations. So much so, that they actually import rubbish from other countries including Scotland.

I find it hard to accept that we who live in a country with numerous towns overflowing with rubbish are being governed by councils that are unable to ‘think as one’.

These councils cannot organise themselves to gather rubbish in a concerted way.

These are councils that waste money having gold-coloured coats of arms etched on to their separate dustbins and utilise different coloured bins for the same deposits throughout the country.

Surely a nationally-organised system could be implemented which would enable all councils to unite and either sell the rubbish to countries such as Sweden or indeed to get together and harass this so-called ‘green thinking’ government to organise the building of a power station in order that we could capitalise on our own garbage.

I cannot see how a power station that was built to burn coal cannot be modified for the purpose outlined. That is instead of closing it down and subsequently demolishing it.

These islands of ours are fast becoming another national ‘landfill’ area. Not as bad as others, of course, but surely joined up thinking on a national scale would benefit us all.

It just needs the people who are supposed to think and work on our behalf getting together and acting as one in our interest.

Just think, clean streets, no litter or fly-tipping, weekly rubbish collections and a relatively small number of landfill areas.

To cap it all, cheaply generated power. Talk about a win-win situation. It’s a ‘no brainer’.

Antony Haworth, Clitheroe