Volunteer Under Investigation for Cleaning Polluted River Without a License, Faces Two Years in Prison

Environmental attorney Paul Powlesland is under investigation by the UK's environmental regulator for cleaning a polluted river.

i_stole_ur_taco 19 points 7 hours ago

Powlesland and his team pulled 200 bags of garbage and organic debris out of a creek

Emphasis mine. I feel like that’s at the crux of the whole issue and the article doesn’t attempt to dig in.

What did they remove? I find it hard to believe that even the pettiest of bureaucrats would take issue with someone picking up actual trash.

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Deebster 3 points 4 hours ago

Organic debris is kinda vague, that could be twigs or a bakery's worth of white bread.

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