and can be recycled, they say. Dr Svetlana Boriskina, from the department of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US, said plastic bags that nobody wants ...

WE refer to your recent report “Malacca bans plastic bags” (The Star, Dec 30). Plastic bags and polystyrene (PS) containers should be recycled instead of being banned.

Recycling takeout containers properly requires know-how. Here's what an expert told us about disposing of pizza boxes, Chinese containers, aluminum tins and other popular food vessels.