Littering Or Not!

Caran | 23:29 Wed 25th Nov 2015 | ChatterBank

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Friend of ours was done for littering. He put a cigarette end down a drain. A warden stopped him and gave him a ticket for £75. If he had appealed it he would have had to pay court costs. So he paid it. The warden was not helpful at all.
Would you have called it littering?
I wouldn't as there was no evidence.

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-Talbot-

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I always remember this chap when it comes to litter bugs .. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192496/Man-dropped-pound-note-fined-50--littering.html

23:59 Wed 25th Nov 2015

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jennyjoan

reminds me of a time when a young lad was eating a banana right beside a waste bin - I pulled him and said - are you not picking the banana skin - no, he said you can if you want. Wouldn't pull anybody now you'd get a good beating.

Old_Geezer

No idea what the official definition is, but my initial thought is that if it is on its way to where stuff on the street normally gets dealt with, it's not remaining littering the street. Although I can sort of see why some might consider it littering the drain.

Baldric

Not sure I understand this OP, maybe it's just me ... .. .

Baldric

Sorry Caran should have said 1st reply not OP.

-Talbot-

I wouldn't as there was no evidence.

So if I poke a plastic bag down a drain using a stick ... it wouldn't be littering?

retrocop

Balders
It must of been very powerful weed!!

Caran

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A cigarette would dissolve down a drain, a plastic bag would not.

-Talbot-

So would paper ... if I stuffed a newspaper gown a drain ......................

sunny-dave

Discarded cigarette butts (mainly the filter) are a form of non-biodegradable litter.

Carried as runoff from streets to drains, to rivers, and ultimately to the ocean and its beaches, cigarette filters are the single most collected item each year in international beach cleanups.

They are an environmental blight.