SIR,

All the letters about whether the recycling does get mixed up in the collection wagons or not could be answered if our democratically elected representatives, who all live 20 miles away in Cwmbran, had the nerve to answer them.

If they don't send correspondence to the Beacon then any resident may ask for the answer directly to the council under the Freedom of Information act.

If our carefully separated recycling doesn't need to be so carefully separated then the council can just collect our rubbish in whatever random coloured bags we feel like filling up.

As for the white bags, the company with the contract to supply them don't seem to have bothered sticking them together properly do they?

M Riggs

(Monmouth)