CONGRATULATIONS to your correspondent Graham Tidman for his brilliant analysis of Thurrock’s waste and recycling team’s rubbish excuses for its blunders.

I, too, contacted the team after finding an officious red notice stuck to my blue bin referring to “contaminated and unacceptable material” which would not be collected.

So far as I am aware, I did not receive any leaflet warning that plastic bags and sacks and Tetra-pack type material were no longer acceptable in blue bins and to expect a senior citizen such as myself to remember a July story in your esteemed publication about a change not due until September is asking too much.

Upon contacting the team to inquire where I should now put the offending material, I was told “in your green bin”.

The problem is I don’t have one. I have a black bin and a brown one. I am also not able to keep my bins at the back of my home which overlooks a green area.

Consequently, passers-by put unsuitable things in all of my bins. Can I soon expect another threatening red notice about something over which I have no control? – NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED.