Government to hit litter louts with £150 on the spot fines
Apr 2, 2018 8:41:53 GMT
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Post by fenrisulfr on Apr 2, 2018 8:41:53 GMT
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/litter-therese-coffey-michael-gove-defra-singapore-environment-a8282906.html
Litter louts will face Singapore-style on-the-spot fines of up to £150 from today as part of government plans to clamp down on the scourge of rubbish dumped on Britain’s streets.
Councils have been handed powers to hike littering penalties to nearly double the current £80 level, and for the first time drivers will be fined if rubbish is thrown from their car windows.
The new scheme aims to help struggling local authorities, who pay out nearly £700m to keep the streets clean each year, at a time when town hall budgets are increasingly squeezed.
Councils have been handed powers to hike littering penalties to nearly double the current £80 level, and for the first time drivers will be fined if rubbish is thrown from their car windows.
The new scheme aims to help struggling local authorities, who pay out nearly £700m to keep the streets clean each year, at a time when town hall budgets are increasingly squeezed.
Personally I'm pissed off with the amount of litter along our verges, in laybys and on the beaches. I still see fag ends and sweet wrappers thrown from car windows on a regular basis, didn't realise they'd stopped fitting ashtrays to the twunts vehicles and as for the crap left behind by travellers who take over public land and get away with it scot free. That just drives another nail into the coffin of being allowed to live on the road and tars everyone with the same brush.
I've picked up stuff, depending what it is and binned it on parkups in the past as I don't want the blame or to look out on it but does this latest measure go far enough or too far.
