While I fully sympathise with your predicament,and stand to be corrected as to the facts, as I understand it anyway, all material for recyclingmust be placed in the blue recycling bin, and evenmore controversially both bins must be left onthe residents own property rather than on the public footpath.Whereas "in the old days" refuse collectors could be expected to act on their own initiative, as obviously this cardboard was intended for recyclingit was placed outside the address on the label, and wouldn't easily fit in the bin, - which essentiallyis your case - sadly nowadays that no longer applies.Refuse collection is now contracted out. And the termsof that contract, so as to keep costs to a minumumstipulate that refuse collectors can only processwaste and recycling which is in the bins. The factthat some may chose to "break the rules" is immaterial.If they were caught or reported they might wellface dismissal.Again the fact that as a conscientious householder,had your cardboard not have been collected, you would have retrieved it yourself from outside, isneither here nor there as far as the Council areconcerned.So that based on the facts you have no real defence I'm afraid. And so the best advice would probably be to simply pay up and try and forget about itbefore things get out of hand"Court orders woman to pay £24,500 to private parking company"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-39478203 A "black bag drop" is quite possibly a genericterm used to cover all rubbish and recycling left outside of a property, and presumed to belongto that property, but not in the bins, as stipulated by Our Lords and Masters. To obtain truly competent legal advice as to whether this question of definition could possibly constitute a defence would certainlycost a lot more than the amount of the original fineand of course is not recoverable.michael adams
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