Sir - Am I the only person who finds it difficult to remember which type of waste disposal is due to be collected on which day? I doubt it.

Is this the day to put out the green box, or the ordinary dustbin, or the brown wheelie bin, or is that next week?

I think that I have devised a simple system which has cracked it!

Get a small container and in it put one card for each collection for a fortnight. In our area that means two green cards, two ordinary cards and one brown card. Write on the top of each card the type of collection, the day for collection (and the evening before to put it out in case the collection comes early). Then put each card in order, one on top of the other, and when the waste bin for the top card has been dealt with, put that card at the bottom of the pile. This leaves the next collection, with its appropriate day, signalled clearly on the top.

We leave the cards in their container on a shelf by the kitchen door. It's a very simple idea, but for me it works.

Obviously the basic idea has many modifications; the cards could be put on rings and just flicked over; the cards could contain any relevant details of the type of waste that is, and is not, appropriate for that particular collection; the container could even hold details of Bank Holiday changes etc.

But for me, the simpler the better, and at least I now know what collection comes next, and when. Yours, with one less thing to worry about, Brian E Woolnough, Abingdon