Monday's article about Glasgow City Council providing recycling bins for food waste states that less than 1% of domestic food waste was recycled - this suggests to me that in a population of Glasgow's size, very little food is wasted.

Indeed, in these austere times, families are learning to 'lick their plates clean', so to speak.

This brings me to another point - how much industrial food waste is being recycled. By that, I mean the food thrown away by fast-food joints, and the like? If these establishments are contributing vast amounts of wastage to the recycling process, the question must be, why?? We have homeless people, and people who, as I already stated, are struggling to make ends meet. Surely, there should be a way of recycling that food wastage to those in need, rather than dumping it somewhere to decay and, as another contributor alludes to, encouraging all sorts of vermin?

Steven Rowan, posted online

Of course it's important to protect the environment but I can't be doing with yet another bin to deal with.

I already have a garden bin, a glass bin, a paper bin and my normal bin for anything that might be left over once I've divided up my refuse.

It's not just that my garden is chock-full of bins but the schedule for putting them out on the right days is almost a full time job.

I'm not saying recycling food waste is a bad idea - but can Glasgow City Council employ bin technical support so we can all make sure we're doing the right bin thing?

Karen McFarlane, Toryglen

The fact that Glasgow City Council says it plans to build 25,000 new homes for the city is great news for Glasgow and will give a big boost to employment, the economy and of course the aspirations of all the folk trying to get a house.

Bring it on.

Johnny Mack, posted online

According to your paper it has taken three months for Glasgow City Council to send the inspectors around city cemeteries.

They should have done this much sooner. Some of these graveyards look to be in a terrible state of repair and I am amazed no one else has been injured.

What happened to the young boy who died in Craigton Cemetery was awful and moves should have been made immediately to make sure no one else suffered the same fate.

Liz Falcon, Netherton