Driver fined £150 over apple core
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What do you think of this?
As a driver who throws a banana skin and and apple core out of my window every day - on the basis they're biodegradable - I'm shocked!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19846121
As a driver who throws a banana skin and and apple core out of my window every day - on the basis they're biodegradable - I'm shocked!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19846121
PurpleMoonlight said:
Edinburger said:
What do you think of this?
As a driver who throws a banana skin and and apple core out of my window every day - on the basis they're biodegradable - I'm shocked!
st is biodegradable but would you st on the street?As a driver who throws a banana skin and and apple core out of my window every day - on the basis they're biodegradable - I'm shocked!
Grenoble said:
Edinburger said:
What do you think of this?
As a driver who throws a banana skin and and apple core out of my window every day - on the basis they're biodegradable - I'm shocked!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/24/bananas-litter-hikers-mountains-scotlandAs a driver who throws a banana skin and and apple core out of my window every day - on the basis they're biodegradable - I'm shocked!
You know it takes 2 years?
streaky said:
Zeeky said:
streaky said:
Jagmanv12 said:
So throwing bread on the local duck pond is littering as well?
Yes. Bread is not a natural food for ducks, and the crap sold in supermarkets is bad for them (and swans).The Daily Telegraph 12 November 2009 said:
Vanessa Kelly, 26, was accosted by a council warden as she and 17-month-old Harry threw the birds scraps of bread.
She has vowed to fight the council “all the way” to have the fine revoked.
Miss Kelly visited the park in Smethwick, West Mids, on Tuesday afternoon.
She said: “The warden walked towards me and asked me to stop feeding the ducks because of complaints about children slipping over on their way to school on duck mess. But there are no health and safety signs up.
"I said fair enough, but then she started doing a fine. I asked ‘what for?’ and she said 'littering.'
She has vowed to fight the council “all the way” to have the fine revoked.
Miss Kelly visited the park in Smethwick, West Mids, on Tuesday afternoon.
She said: “The warden walked towards me and asked me to stop feeding the ducks because of complaints about children slipping over on their way to school on duck mess. But there are no health and safety signs up.
"I said fair enough, but then she started doing a fine. I asked ‘what for?’ and she said 'littering.'
s87 Environmental Protection Act 1990 said:
Offence of leaving litter.
(1) If any person throws down, drops or otherwise deposits in, into or from any place to which this section applies, and leaves, any thing whatsoever in such circumstances as to cause, or contribute to, or tend to lead to, the defacement by litter of any place to which this section applies, he shall, subject to subsection (2) below, be guilty of an offence.
Streaky(1) If any person throws down, drops or otherwise deposits in, into or from any place to which this section applies, and leaves, any thing whatsoever in such circumstances as to cause, or contribute to, or tend to lead to, the defacement by litter of any place to which this section applies, he shall, subject to subsection (2) below, be guilty of an offence.
Zeeky said:
It's given its ordinary meaning as far as I can see from the legislation. If you feed animals and they eat what you have given them I cannot see how the food could be described as litter. It isn't rubbish as it isn't being disposed of. It might be the case if you feed animals and they decide not to eat it then the food becomes litter if not collected and disposed of properly.
There are undesirable consequences of feeding wildlife and so good reasons to discourage it but I would argue that feeding wildlife is not littering as the food is not being disposed of as rubbish but deposited for the purpose of feeding animals.
So why isn't throwing an apple out the car window seen as feeding wildlife rather than littering?. Banana skin too. There are undesirable consequences of feeding wildlife and so good reasons to discourage it but I would argue that feeding wildlife is not littering as the food is not being disposed of as rubbish but deposited for the purpose of feeding animals.
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