Warning to households after bag of fly-tipped rubbish costs Ashton-under-Lyne woman £495
A woman has been fined after household waste was dumped next to a litter bin – on her own street.
Jolene Bamber, of Nook Lane, was taken to court by Tameside council after a street cleaner discovered the rubbish on February 15, 2025.
The council said that after Ms Bamber failed to respond to fixed penalty notice letters, the 38-year-old was hit with a £495 fine for dumping her household waste next to the bin on Nook Lane. The case was dealt with at Tameside Magistrates’ Court heard.
Appearing on August 29, Ms Bamber pleaded guilty to failing in her duty of care under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
She told the court although she didn’t flytip the waste herself, it did come from her property. Ms Bamber admitted and she had not taken sufficient steps to ensure her household waste was given to an ‘authorised person’ for disposal.
The court imposed a fine of £40 and ordered her to pay £455 in costs for the clean-up and prosecution.
Tameside council’s executive member for environmental services and neighbourhoods, Coun Laura Boyle, said: “Just because waste is left next to a litter bin doesn’t make it acceptable – it is still dumping waste irresponsibly in the street, blighting the neighbourhood and incurring clean up costs on the local community.
“Flytipping is quite rightly of great concern to local residents, the vast majority of whom take pride in their local areas and dispose of their waste responsibly.
“We will always take action when we find evidence of who is responsible for illegally dumped waste.”