I shall be amazed if this letter, or anything like it, appears in The Argus.

A recent front-page highlighted the the release of 289,636 tons of carbon dioxide in a single year in Brighton and Hove (February 21). The article also said the city has been designated an air-quality management area by the Department of the Environment, Rural Affairs and Farming.

Businesses and residents are being urged to act "immediately" to reduce vast amounts of waste products with which they are lumbering the world.

more to reduce waste and pollution.

One small example is envelopes with plastic windows, which obviate the necessity of printing the recipient's name twice.

No doubt this is economically helpful to the senders of such letters but it is a somewhat artificial economy when it comes to recycling because the plastic windows can't be recycled with the paper.

The reduction of waste is as much the responsibility of manufacturers as consumers. I would like to see some positive ideas as to how reduce CO2 emissions.

The number of existing and proposed buildings won't be conducive to lowering CO2 emissions, not to mention the critical water shortage.

In fact, there are many such development projects in the pipeline which would exacerbate these problems.

I can't see how the promotion of any building, especially one so close to the shoreline, can be effective, environmentally or economically.

Economic stability and sustainable growth is at variance and incompatible with the natural environment.

-DF Phillips, Portslade