Ae Cusack (Letters, January 12) asks who benefits from the 72 trees donated by our not-for-profit organisation, Alupro, in recognition of the 72 tonnes of aluminium cans and foil collected for recycling last year by residents of West Sussex.
The answer is everyone.
Council tax-payers benefit because the value of aluminium (usually more than the £600 per tonne Mr Cusack mentions) helps offset the cost of recycling collections to councils.
Residents of West Sussex can watch the native trees we have provided grow locally.
And five village communities in sub-Saharan Africa will receive trees for food and medicinal uses.
That's quite a list. And because recycling aluminium saves up to 95 per cent of the energy needed to make it from the raw material, bauxite, there are also considerable environmental benefits for us all.
-Cherry Hamson, communications director, Alupro, www.alupro.org.uk
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