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A couple from Stoke-on-Trent have each been handed with £200 fines and threatened with criminal charges by their local council for throwing an envelope away in a public bin.
Stoke City Council said the act breaches sections 87 and 88 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and says it as an offence of littering because household waste cannot be put in a public bin.