Sir – “The new home rubbish collection system needs a degree … to understand it” (Letters, January 27). Rubbish! Basic literacy and numeracy suffice.

Mr Wright should take three simple steps: 1. Read the helpful printed information explaining which items go in which container

2. Remember the one day a week concerned (previously two)

3. Place the bin at the roadside and let the excellent collectors do the rest.

It works a treat. Mr Wright should perhaps concentrate his degree studies on that other old English favourite, moaning and complaining.

John Grundy, Boars Hill