I read Wednesday's Oxford Mail with mounting astonishment. What on earth can city councillor John Tanner possibly be thinking about with his heavy-handed comments about the relatively trivial matter of refuse collection?

This is enviro-fundamentalism taken to a ludicrous extreme and deserves nothing but outright derision.

Does it not occur to Commissar Tanner that some people travel from his egalitarian, socialist, Oxonian city state from time to time and are simply not able to put their refuse out on the crucial day? So perhaps they put their wheelie bins out a day or so in advance.

I note that the Town Hall is appointing two full-time environmental enforcement officers. Who is paying for these worthies? And what are their powers?

Perhaps they will march non-believers of Tanner-thought to the nearest tree and make them hug it until they repent their great sin of using a non-approved refuse sack?

Or of putting out a wheelie bin on an inappropriate date without due care and attention?

Methinks your article would have been more appropriate on April 1, rather than April 5!

NJ Wilcock Manor Road Cogges Witney