@BBCNews I know how she feels - waiting for my car at a service garage ON PRIVATE LAND in Weston-super-Mare one day, I smoked a hand-rolled cigarette (no filter, so no plastic), and disposed of a thumbnail-sized butt containing biodegradable paper and tobacco leaf down a gully on the

@BBCNews This is absolute nonsense. Coffee is not a pollutant. Unless they are claiming that pouring the same liquid into her sink at home is also an offence, this is just another example of councils fleecing people for however much they can get away with.

@BBCNews If she took it home and poured it down the sink it would end up in exactly the same place. If this is true, then her mistake was handing over her details to the street warden. They have no powers of arrest and cannot detain you. If you dropped some litter pick it up, put it in

@BBCNews I guess had it been raw sewage she poured down the drain the council would have allowed that judging by Thames waters standard of disposing of waste.

@BBCNews Nonsense fine. Challenge it and it will get tossed out. If it’s an offence then coffee shops would be bankrupt with fines.

@BBCNews UK again looking stupid. It's like a national sport now Who is going to fight Putin for a place that imposes a 150 ukp fine for pouring coffee down a drain? Starmer will start the war and all the military capable lads will join the side of freedom and fight for Russia where you

@BBCNews EPA 1990 doesn't apply to sewers, that's a different law altogether. That area will be a combined system, which means the coffee goes into a sewer, they can't fine for it.

@BBCNews Was it racist coffee?

@BBCNews Water bosses are allowed to pump millions of tonnes of raw sewage into the water ways without a personal fine but this poor woman is relieved of £100 for tipping her coffee away. Moral Bankruptcy Britain, episode 8097123952378195.

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@BBCNews I am so glad the uk is not part of the eu. For I am sure somebody would have blamed the eu. But as it stands and has always stood, the local councils are idiots. Coffee is not a pollutant, because if it were then so would tire residue and other materials that go through the

@BBCNews I’m sure the enforcers get a cut of the fines they issue - directly incentivising farces like this

@BBCNews Do they fine the street-sh!ters too? Somehow, I doubt it.

@BBCNews In the UK the law is only enforced against the innocent, apparently.

@BBCNews This is abuse of the act in the sole interest of profiteering. Richmond council would be ridiculed in court, there reason would not uphold to logical scrutiny. Even more so the council members who upheld this decision should be ridiculed publicly.

@BBCNews This brave intervention apparently took three officers.

@BBCNews But if she threw it over somebody she’d get a little slap on the wrist

@BBCNews in the bin it is then hot or not

@BBCNews That is shocking, in fact she has done the right thing pouring it down the drain rather than putting it straight into a bin! @rbrut that is a disgrace and needs over turning!

@BBCNews Hope she appoints a good lawyer and sues these gestapo cretins into next week.

@BBCNews Anarcho-tyranny

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@BBCNews @grok pouring coffee down the drain isn’t allowed?

@BBCNews This is ridiculous.

@BBCNews @grok what’s the risk of pouring coffee down the drain?

@BBCNews Walk away.... they can't detain you by law. They are plastic policeman. Don't give them any details and walk away.

@BBCNews Coffee down a drain is a pollutant because it goes into rivers and streams etc... But flushing raw sewage into Britains rivers, lakes and sea is okay.. who are these people that run councils?

@BBCNews Technically the enforcement officers were correct but this is like fining someone for being ½mph over the speed limit.

@BBCNews This is an absolute INJUSTICE. Dogs DAILY contaminate with poo & urine every park, every tree, light pole, every beach, every doorstep, every pavement. TONS of dog shit R washed daily into the sewage system‼️ Why these PIOUS environment protectors don't DARE 2 fine dog owners❓

@BBCNews Perhaps if she had taken a shit down the drain the local gov would have ignored it completely.

@BBCNews What do they fine water bosses when they shit down the drain?

@BBCNews I'm pouring paint down the drain right now because fuck you.

@BBCNews They are misinterpreting the legislation. It only applies to liquid pollutants which coffee is not. This same drain transfers coffee from sinks all across the city. I hope sense prevails by the council and they issue new guidance, and / or this goes to court.

@BBCNews FFS I feel sorry for the lady, being fined and pursued in this way. Shame she didn't pour millions of gallons of raw sewage and effluent down the drain, which is absolutely fine, going on recent evidence. What a silly, trifling, pathetic little isle of nonsense the UK is becoming

@BBCNews She should have made herself into a public company, then she could pour in what she likes with no penalty! Shareholders > everyone!