Let's go the whole hog and march on Parliament I'm ready and willing.

- Steve P, Leeds England

What is left of democracy in Britain is rapidly disappearing before our eyes. Thankfully, we still have the independent media such as the Daily Mail, who voice the true concerns of this country.

- Gary, Dorset

Has to be a winner the Mail. Our tory borough has a twice-a-week collection- but what happened to every day collections? Seems they quietly disappeared with the second post.

- Liz, London, UK

Firstly no one seems to know what is or is not recyclable. Then we need a Pied Piper for each authority because sure as hell the vermin will increase thousand fold along with it come all kind of health issues because of all the gasses escaping from the rotting foods, putting extra strain on our over stretched National Health. What I am saying is it means melt down for us all.

- B, Middx

Our country lanes and beauty spots will become dumping grounds for peoples household bin rubbish if this is allowed to happen. We are already a nation of litter louts and this will take us over the edge back to medieval times. And the councils will still have the job of clearing it up!

- Edd, Herts

What worries me most is the number of Conservative Councils on this list.

- Anne Bottell, Wimbledon

Let's go the whole hog and march on Parliament I'm ready and willing.

- Steve P, Leeds England

V for Vendetta is based on a mere "comic book". No way DM readers would watch something like that.

However, the worst cause of rubbish is modern societies being incapable of mending or re-using.

All of us experience the frustration of taking a broken gadget to a high-street shop, only to be told it is ~"not economically repairable".

Every day we throw away millions of disposable nappies, countless tons of gratuitous packaging, redundant televisions and video-recorders, computers and iPods.

Nothing could do more to curb our plague of rubbish than for us to rediscover the lost art of mending things.

There seems a strong case for penalising manufacturers and retailers who generate huge quantities of unnecessary packaging, and who make it so hard to repair their products.

What are we, the shoppers and consumers, supposed to do when confronted with the huge chunks of foam cushioning which surround every electronic toy, the acres of bubble-wrap and cardboard that encase every home delivery?

Last week, we received some meat which we had ordered. Perhaps ten pounds weight of beef arrived in a Styrofoam box measuring two feet by 18 inches by nine, each serving in an individual cardboard box. It all looked pretty, but the packaging half-filled our wheelie-bin.

It is obviously vital to cut household waste. But the way to start is by obliging industry and services to stop overloading us with rubbish, not by axing the public services which take it away from our homes.

The cardboard box half filled your bin? You know what the magic of cardboard boxes is? Attack them with a knife and it takes up a fraction of the space.

Problem solved.

Interesting analysis of the problem of people not fixing things and creating too much rubbish, but surely the obvious solution to that problem is to fix things, rather than expecting other people to do anything about it.

jack

Councils that have switched from weekly to fortnightly rubbish collections achieve higher recycling rates, a study has suggested.

Has to be a winner the Mail. Our tory borough has a twice-a-week collection- but what happened to every day collections? Seems they quietly disappeared with the second post.

- Liz, London, UK