SIR, — Following our catch-me-if-you-can green waste collection, attached to our green bin was a notice offering to wash it out regularly for £3.50. I don t know if this enterprising person is connected with the district council, but full marks for effo

SIR, - Following our "catch-me-if-you-can" green waste collection, attached to our green bin was a notice offering to wash it out regularly for £3.50.

I don't know if this enterprising person is connected with the district council, but full marks for effort.

With the arrival of the maggots, rubbish collection will have come full circle from the 1960s when maggots were a fact of life. We washed the bin out ourselves, but put up with it because we weren't paying exorbitant council tax.

So that's progress St Albans style!

ANN BRACE,

Rowlatt Drive, St Albans.