I AM hopping mad; I have just found out that when the newly refurbished 'dump' re-opens, it will still have no facilities for recycling plastics.

I have written before to say that 97 per cent of my one black plastic bin bag each week is made up of plastic waste. We are a family of six and I recycle everything else, hard work though it is.

In desperation I have been saving some of our packaging that I cannot avoid buying in order to take it somewhere for disposal and assumed that if our local salvage site was being brought up to speed it would naturally have such facilities. But no. No-one is willing to do it, apparently.

What is wrong with this county? I would say 'country' but I know that other authorities are making more effort to confront our wasteful and slovenly society.

In Cornwall plastic milk bottles are collected from households. Readers may know of other places which are forward-looking.

Meanwhile, in Worcestershire I am really frustrated by the lack of political or social will.

We'll have to drown in plastic waste because not enough money is made from treating it.

Does anyone know where the nearest facilities are?

CHRISTINE SHEPHERD, St Andrews Road, Malvern.