AS someone who cares about the environment and also about saving money, I installed a combi boiler and a water meter. Now I am wasting both energy and water by having to wash out tins and bottles for recycling.

It is comforting to know our elected representatives consider landfill of greater importance than these precious commodities. I also trust they will not have the audacity to ask us to save water if the summer is a dry one.

J. BARKER, Whitefield.