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This story is really poor and badly reported, as it doesn't explain WHY the Environmental Protection Act 1990 has these fines in place and why what this women did was wrong. Instead it's a clickbait story that implies the woman is a victim.
In the UK (and like many places) there are 2 systems of water drainage in urban areas - the surface water drainage (which is for rainwater) and the sewage system (which is dirty and drains toilets, home sinks, etc).
The surface water drainage runs eventually into fresh water such as lakes, rivers, and the sea, untreated. So if you pour coffee down a rain drain, it is contaminating the fresh water. It may seem ridiculous to fine someone for the dregs of one coffee, but if everyone were putting waste water in the rainwater drains / gutters it would have a detrimental impact on the ecosystem. It's already a huge problem as people DO put contaminated water into these drains, probably due to widespread ignorance.
The sewage system is for contaminated waste; that water is collected and treated and either reused for drinking water or then released back into the fresh water system. Finish your coffee OR take it with you to a place where you can dispose of it into the sewage system.
She needs to pay her fine, educate herself and understand she is not a victim here. She did something wrong.
So all the diesel runoff from leaky lorries, tractors, badly maintained vehicles etc and, whatever else that gets spilt on the roads goes into our waterways untreated?
Plus Thames water has been releasing raw sewage into our waterways.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67357566
The fact that that happens is not a reason to allow free dumping into the storm drains though. There’s not a ready solution for motor oil drips that happen to leak from a truck. There is a solution to homeowners wanting to dispose of 4 quarts of oil after an oil change.
The dumping laws make sense, this was just a stupid application of them.
The solution was this...
Yeah and even though I live in a county that has a free and easy hazardous waste dropoff service, it’s still a pain to drive out there. I’m sure a lot of people who care less than me still dump shit in the ground because their grandpa did it that way. And many cities and counties won’t even offer a hazardous waste service…