Wow! So now using a litter bin could land you with a fine...BBC NEWS | England | Leicestershire | Man faces £50 fine for using bin:

A man who threw away junk mail in a litter bin on his way to work is facing a £50 fine from his local council.
Andy Tierney, 24, from Hinckley in Leicestershire, is reported to have dumped the unwanted mail in a bin located in the street.

Council officers tracked him down using the addresses on the envelopes.

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council said Mr Tierney had actually dumped a bag of rubbish, including food...

Wowie! I do this all the time. Sort of. If I'm in town, say, and buy a sandwich lunch from M&S or somewhere and get a carrier bag and put my local newspaper, fags and sandwiches in the bag and then swap over the fags for an empty fag packet, don't finish all the sandwiches and complete my thirty-four second in depth review of the local rag, I'll wrap them all up in the plastic bag and put them in the nearest bin. There'd certainly be "food waste" in it if I had an apple core or banana skin or something.

So, calling a police-horse gay, swearing at your best mate in the park and now putting litter in the nearest bin are all bad, and some people think we are not getting more authoritarian and petty as a society?