Recycling is not smashing glass bottles and importing more – it is re-using them, as was the custom before greedy companies decided they could make more money by throwing away the used bottles.

If they could wash and re-use bottles in the 50s surely, with today’s technology, it would be possible to do the same today.

Trucks bring the bottled products to Orange – they can take them away instead of going away empty.

If the companies had spent as much time and money preparing for the implantation as they had fighting the governments we would not have reached this situation.

Why is it the government’s problem? The companies are producing the products, they should be responsible for complying with the law to recycle their waste.

In Sweden supermarkets have a recycling area where you place your containers in a slot, then, when you are finished, press a button. You are issued with a docket and you have that amount deducted off your docket – a simple system.

The container issue is only one item of waste that needs to be dealt with. Packaging is another. All that plastic and cardboard to suit supermarkets cut labour costs.