VAL JACKSON, of Drew Street, Brixham, writes:

Thank you for publishing my previous letter, Chronicle, September 23, about the bad state of the recycling area at Dartmouth’s park-and-ride.

Curiously, today on my weekly shopping foray to Dartmouth, and to the park-and-ride recycling area with my empty bottles and newspapers, there was a council employee there sweeping up the debris and broken glass.

Jocularly, I said to him: ‘This is good to see, is it just a one-off?’

He replied: ‘Don’t know, never had to come and do it before’.

So perhaps my letter has ­produced an element of ‘sweeping action’.

Meanwhile, similar action is now required by those responsible for the huge recycling bins, which are always overflowing and smelly – flies abound, and apart from their filthy ­unsightliness, they are a health hazard.