After reading both sides of the argument on burning or recycling (The Argus, October 22), I have come down on the side of recycling.

Although this does seem to cost a lot of money, it is far better for the environment.

For far too long, we have been burning our waste and causing too many toxins to float freely into the air we breathe.

We are now paying a very high price for this, with an increase in asthma in children, for example.

More economic ways must be found to recycle our waste and cut down on the need to use landfill sites and the need for more incinerators to be built.

We must act now before it is too late.

-Steve Fuller, Rowan Avenue, Hove