Some Fresh Ideas on Recycling Plastic

Re “Wanted: More Bottle Recycling Opportunities,” letters, June 4: I am an apartment dweller in Los Angeles, and a recycling bin is not offered to our building. I have to go out of my neighborhood to recycle at a store. The earnings can be used only at that specific store within a limited period of time. My solution? Keep the bags of bottles in my car trunk and donate them to the next person I find collecting bottles from the trash bins to pay the rent or to put new shoes on his or her child. I win for doing a good deed and my lucky “lottery winner” gets a few dollars.

Catherine Goldschlager

Studio City

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To eliminate plastic bottle disposal problems in a truly environmentally sound way, clean up the public water supply to make it really safe and appealing for drinking so people will not have to buy it in plastic bottles.

Margot Eiser

Montebello