I AM glad that the environment officers see discarded chewing gum as litter. Perhaps eventually the 'gum-busters' will be redundant.

If the officers patrolled the suburbs, they would have a field day by the large number of discarded rubber bands dropped by postmen on pavements.

Rev L S Rivett,

Ryecroft Avenue,

Woodthorpe,

York.

Updated: 11:31 Tuesday, May 04, 2004