SIR – The chief executive of waste and resources action programme, Dr Liz Goodwin, claims that the amount of recyclables going to landfill is an insignificant two per cent.

This is the figure for our country’s contribution to the total of the world’s CO2 emissions. Does she, as I do, consider this insignificant too? I should wager not.

Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley