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Buckinghamshire County Council has prosecuted a woman from Slough in Berkshire who fly-tipped household waste left uncollected over the Christmas/New Year period.

Magdalena Heberlein, 31, of Mead Avenue in Slough pleaded guilty at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court to an offence of dumping household waste illegally at a site in High Wycombe.

The court heard that, on 4 January 2017, officers from the Waste Partnership for Buckinghamshire examined seven black sacks of waste they found dumped on Trenches Lane, Wexham in Buckinghamshire – among the household waste, they found items identified as belonging to Heberlein.

When interviewed at a police station, Heberlein explained that she had excess household waste and said there had been no household waste collection between Christmas and New Year.

She had driven the waste herself hoping to use the recycling site at Langley, but she had found it shut, as it was during the evening after work.

Heberlein admitted depositing the waste at the roadside further down Trenches Lane.

The Magistrates fined her £1,216 and ordered clean up and prosecution costs of £485 to be paid. A victim surcharge of £121 was also levied, bringing the total penalty to £1,822.

The case was prosecuted by Buckinghamshire County Council, working on behalf of the Waste Partnership for Buckinghamshire.

The Waste Partnership launched the Illegal Dumping Costs campaign in November 2003 to combat illegal dumping and waste management offences in Buckinghamshire.

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