BANK Holidays are bound to disrupt refuse collection schedules. But was City of York Council right in May to arrange for rubbish to be picked up the day before the normal one?

In my area many people forgot the revised date and, instead, put their rubbish out for collection on the usual day.

Result? Piles of bin-liners litter the street for a week. As for the people who empty the dustbins, bringing Bank Holiday Monday collections forward to Saturday means they are denied their long weekend.

So what is the point?

Roderic Vassie,

Belle Vue Cottages,

York.

Updated: 11:21 Wednesday, June 04, 2003