{"id":287024,"date":"2025-11-12T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287024\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:07:10","slug":"feltham-woman-fined-1k-for-fly-tipping-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287024\/","title":{"rendered":"Feltham woman fined \u00a31k ‘for fly-tipping envelope’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip James LynchLocal Democracy Reporting Service<\/p>\n

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Loretta Alvarez said she is unable to pay the fine<\/p>\n

A woman from west London has been fined \u00a31,000 by her local council for fly-tipping an envelope outside her flat in Feltham.<\/p>\n

Loretta Alvarez, 26, said the communal bins – shared with about 25 other properties – were full, so she placed the cardboard envelope on top of cardboard next to the bins.<\/p>\n

Ms Alvarez, who is a single mother, said she cannot afford to pay and is now being threatened with legal action.<\/p>\n

Hounslow Council said fly tipping was defined as leaving waste anywhere in public apart from in a bin, regardless of whether bins are full. <\/p>\n

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Only the envelope was left by Ms Alvarez, she said, not the boxes <\/p>\n

Ms Alvarez said she would “never intentionally” leave rubbish out in the open. <\/p>\n

“It’s been so stressful. I didn’t want this to happen, I wouldn’t want it to happen to someone else,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been trying to juggle this alongside work and being a mum – it’s been hard.”<\/p>\n

She thought a council worker had picked up the letter with her address on and assumed the rest of the dumped rubbish was also hers.<\/p>\n

Hounslow Council told Ms Alvarez she had until 5 November to make the payment in full, or she could face legal proceedings in which she could be criminally charged. <\/p>\n

She said: “I don’t have that money to give, I can’t afford getting into debt to pay it, and I don’t want to get a mark on my record. <\/p>\n

“I’m a mental health nurse, I went to university for three years.<\/p>\n

“They’re fining me more than someone gets for speeding.”<\/p>\n

The Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> understands Hounslow Council put the fine on hold while it investigated.<\/p>\n

However, it has not been cancelled and the council has stayed firm on the envelope fine. <\/p>\n

In a statement, councillor Pritam Grewal, cabinet member for community safety, said the council “remains committed to taking a zero-tolerance approach to littering and protecting the local environment”.<\/p>\n

He added: “We have done the right thing in issuing the fine, because littering includes leaving waste anywhere in public apart from in a bin, regardless of whether bins are full. <\/p>\n

“While we accept that no one likes receiving a fine, residents expect us to tackle the offence and the offenders.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip James LynchLocal Democracy Reporting Service LDRS Loretta Alvarez said she is unable to pay the fine A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-287024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}