Pretty dumb law... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435gg66gpo A woman fined £150 for pouring coffee dregs down a drain in the road gutter. Because she didn't want to leave her coffee cup in a bin with liquid still in it. Well done the three enforcement officers who probably looked not unlike SAS troops or security police, with their body cameras (so they could prove they didn't enjoy scaring her too much) and other intimidating looking kit. If the law was applied everywhere with as much strictness it wouldn't be such a problem. We might have clean, crime free vandalism free graffiti free streets like they do in a few other parts of the World. But the law is not applied like that. While this woman was being harassed a dozen phones were doubtless snatched, bicycles stolen and a few tons of rubbish fly-tipped around the city. All much more serious, and virtually all unpunished.
Odd how can coffee pollute the environment? what are drains for?? Do they council have a legal responsibility when they clean the streets with the cleaning agents or use ice gritting that gets into waterway and harms amphibians and fish? equally you are only charged with littering if you are firstly given an opportunity to pick it up and refuse she was not able to do this. the enforcement agents have no power of arrest and she should have walked on. They can’t even ask her name without a police officer present. Silly world we live in
Absolutely incredible. Unlike over here, I could not find a toilet so I had a massive poo in a dustbin, somebody was walking past and gave me a newspaper to wipe my with.
And it’s ok for the mega rich water companies to throw ****e in the sea - what a fuking joke this country is !
For the 2023/24 year, local authorities in England dealt with 1.15 million fly-tipping incidents, an increase of 6% from the 1.08 million reported in 2022/23. In 2023/24, 60% of fly-tips involved household waste. Total incidents involving household waste were 688,000 in 2023/24, an increase of 5% from 654,000 incidents in 2022/23. The most common place for fly-tipping to occur was on highways (pavements and roads), which accounted for 37% of total incidents in 2023/24. In 2023/24, the number of highway incidents was 427,000, which was a decrease of 1% from 433,000 in 2022/23. The most common size category for fly-tipping incidents in 2023/24 was equivalent to a ‘small van load’ (31% of total incidents), followed by the equivalent of a ‘car boot or less’(28%). In 2023/24, 47,000 or around 4% of total incidents were of ‘tipper lorry load’ size or larger, which is an increase of 11% from 42,000 in 2022/23. For these large fly-tipping incidents, the cost of clearance to local authorities in England in 2023/24 was £13.1 million. Local authorities carried out 528,000 enforcement actions in 2023/24, which was a slight decrease from the 530,000 in 2022/23. The number of fixed penalty noticesissued was 63,000 in 2023/24, a decrease of 5% from 67,000 in 2022/23. This is the second most common action after investigations and accounted for 12% of all actions in 2023/24. The average court fine has increased from £526 in 2022/23 to £530 in 2023/24. The total number of court fines decreased by 8% from 1,491 in 2022/23 to 1,378 in 2023/24, with the combined value of these fines decreasing by 7% from £785,000 to £730,000.
Walking along a beautiful country lane in the Chelsfield Circular walk, I was confronted with a huge pile of builders waste. Ghastly. Mind you, the recycling centres don't all make it easy.
