I SHOULD like to say that I think that the Household Waste Recycling Centre located on Canal Road is a great step in the right direction towards zero waste.

However, on a recent visit there I decided to take my bag of aluminium foil that I had collected to be recycled. For a number of years, I have been passing this bag on to a relative who lives in Bath and benefits from doorstep collection of recycling household waste.

I couldn't see any specific area for foil recycling so I asked a man in attendance there. He told me that he could take my bag of aluminium foil and indicated towards a skip where it was going to be put. At this point I asked if the foil was going to be recycled to which he answered "No". I promptly requested the return of my foil.

I understand that not everything can be recycled but, if foil can be, why is it not being collected for such by such a well signposted, and increasingly popular, recycling centre?

People are using the recycling centre thinking they are contributing to recycling, not landfill sites. They are presuming as I did that what we take to these centres is disposed of by being reused again in order to save our planet for our future generations.

Surely foil comes into the recycling category in Wiltshire, it certainly does in Bath. I am appalled the foil people are taking to Canal Road is being thrown into a skip then buried. In a 100 years that foil will still be foil. It will never rust or break down biologically, organically or chemically in our soil.

Hills Waste are the company contracted I presume by Wiltshire County Council to run a recycling facility. Could it not be possible for them to make users of their centre aware of what is going to be recycled and what is just going to be buried out of sight, out of mind? An informative sign perhaps, at the entrance.

MRS T ASHDOWN,

St Mary's Gardens,

Hilperton Marsh,

Trowbridge.