A SINGLE mum was fined ￡400 for fly-tipping after leaving rubbish outside her home in a cardboard box because she had no bins to put it in.
Chloe Rhodes, 23, asked her landlord to arrange for the council to deliver her missing blue bin, grey bin and green box.
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Single mum Chloe Rhodes was fined ￡400 for fly-tipping after leaving rubbish outside her home in a cardboard box because she had no bins to put it in Credit: BPM
Nothing arrived, so McDonald’s worker Chloe, who had just moved in, put her rubbish in a cardboard box instead.
Chloe, who lives with son Logan, four, said: “It was just household rubbish which I’d have put in a bin if I’d had one.
“Then I got a fine through addressed to ‘The Occupier’ saying I had to pay ￡400 in 14 days.
"I was gutted.”
Chloe, of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, said her local council told her she will be taken to court if she does not pay.
She said: “It’s so unfair — ￡400 just for a box.”
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