I READ your article on waste recycling, but the main focus should be on public awareness.

I live in East Kilbride and the amount of household rubbish being dumped on the streets is getting worse every year. If you look at old photographs of Glasgow slums you do not see piles of rubbish lying in the street.

The people who do this sort of thing are unlikely to bother what rubbish they put in what bin.

As for charging for uplifts obviously the same people are never going to pay.

The only way recycling will work properly is education.

William Allan, East Kilbride, by email

I AM all for leaving EU as it is now and has been for many years, running our legal system and many domestic issues.

When we first joined the EU, we had food surplices in warehouses which was given to the needy but that has long gone.

Now we have food banks.

Of course our EU commissioners like Neil Kinnock, Peter Mandelsohn and others are pocketing a fortune while doing little for their native countries.

Better out than in. The passengers on the gravy train don’t wish it derailed.

Alex Lindsay, Baldwin Avenue, by email

WE reported how a motorist was surprised to receive a “final demand” letter from debt collectors six months after he believed his bus lane fine had been dropped, sparking response online.

GLASGOW City Council sent me a notice, advising that I had driven in a bus lane. I immediately emailed them, but got a response stating that they do not respond to emails! Perhaps somebody there can explain to us, the driving public, why they even bother to put an email address on the violation notice?

I sent a second letter to them, disputing their claim of having driven in a bus lane. The three images printed on the original notice failed to show any road signage indicating that I was in a bus lane.

By law, a bus lane is clearly defined as a stretch of carriageway that is usually tarmaced in a different colour (usually red), with a solid white line between the bus lane and normal lanes.

The reply to my second letter had left me baffled - what I had actually unknowingly done was to drive through a bus gate! Now, I’m no genius, but even I know the difference between a lane and a gate!

Steven Rowan, posted online

ALL the new taxi ranks in the city centre, such as at George Street and Union Street, are situated on the right-hand side of the street probably due to the bus lanes.

If you're in a wheelchair or require a ramp to enter you cannot board a taxi there, maybe that should be taken into consideration with the planning.

Michael Igoe, posted online