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  The Daily Telegraph reports that a litter-picking enthusiast who spends an hour each day cleaning the streets of Stourbridge has been fined £75 after putting refuse into a public bin. Dudley council officials accused David Baker of fly-tipping because they said he had used a litter bin to deposit a pizza box and junk mail - considered illegal as this is classed as "domestic waste". Mr Baker has previously won awards for his cleaning efforts. He described the fine as "bureaucracy gone mad" and said the council seemed "desperate for money".
  
  Source: The Daily Telegraph, Page: 5
  
  If ever DDc went this mad, I think I'd have to resign as a Councillor.
  
  We have a chap who walks up and down the Folkestone Road picking up litter as he goes; I wouldn't want to deter him from continuing doing so.
  Surely the litter bins (and we don't have enough of them) are for waste and litter that would otherwise be thrown down on the pavement or in the road, so anyone picking it up and putting it in the public waste bins should be given a community award, not a fine.
  
  
  
  Roger

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