Carl Smith, 31, was issued with a £100 fixed penalty notice earlier by Bromley Council after breaking the Environmental Protection Act.
A single cigarette butt ended up costing a man £800 A man has been told to fork out more than £800 after dropping a cigarette butt on the street. Carl Smith, 31, was issued with a £100 fixed penalty notice earlier by Bromley Council after breaking the Environmental Protection Act. The matter was made worse when he failed to pay, resulting in an excess fine when the case went to court.
The man had been smoking in Market Square ‘Littering undoes this work and is illegal, with our enforcement team issuing a fixed penalty notice to anyone seen littering. ‘If payment is not received then prosecution will follow, with fines and costs being considerably higher than the fixed penalty notice.’ Last year, a woman was followed and fined £100 for ‘dropping a cigarette butt’ on the ground in Bexhill, East Sussex.
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