A woman was detained after failing to attend court over her repeated dumping of wrong-coloured bags (Picture: Getty)

A woman was arrested and locked up for dumping 60 rubbish bags of the wrong colour outside her home over 22 days.

Prosecutors said the change from black to orange and clear bags for recycling had been clearly publicised.

But Lindsey Webb, 34 and from Ipswich, carried out putting it in black bags as the replacement ones were never delivered to her flat.

She was detained for failing to appear in court after breaching the Environmental Protection Act four times outside her home in March.


She has now been given a six-month conditional discharge after appearing before magistrates via video link from the police station.



The mother-of-three was also ordered to pay a £50 bill to Ipswich Borough Council.

The rules changed in March so black bags could no longer be dumped on the streets (Picture: Getty)

Lindsey said she had permission to dump the black bags (Picture: Google)

Lindsey said she had ‘fallen foul’ of the bin collection changes, which came into force in March and prohibited those with no storage place to dump their black bags outside.

Prosecutor Richard Essex said the change from black to orange and clear bags had been widely publicised and residents were told to get in touch for stock.

But Lindsey said when she asked for the new bags they never arrived.

The black bags chucked out by Lindsey were flagged by a passing warden, who saw 10 bags dumped on the pavement.

Bills addressed to the defendant were found in the bags during a search, while CCTV also showed Lindsey going out twice the next night to dump her rubbish.

The mother-of-three was said to have dumped 60 black bags over 22 days (Picture: Getty)

Her lawyer Jeremy Kendall said she had secured permission to leave the rubbish there, and that she failed to appear in court because she never got a summons.

According to the Ipswich Star, Mr Kendall said: ‘She has three children, who generate quite a bit of waste.

‘She made no attempt to be underhand. While unseemly, it didn’t inconvenience anyone directly because the bins were left outside a boarded up shop.’

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