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Letters / Why can’t these be recycled?

Shame on me. Shame on Shetland!

Why can we not have our R-PET plastic food trays/containers, etc collected for recycling in Shetland – as these are collected for recycling as standard elsewhere in the UK?

I have a room full from over four months of buying our weekly shop in Tesco, Lerwick.

Can they not be sent to Aberdeen for recycling there, at the very least?

Beatrice – well done on being re-elected – could you take up this shameful non-recycling of plastic issue please – or should I just throw them all in the sea?

Of course, I’ve shocked myself how much has built up and need to take steps to reduce what we buy in plastic.

Chris Pearson
Burra

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