The couple have already had to appear at Greenwich magistrates court for a preliminary hearing at which they yesterday entered not guilty pleas. They are due to stand trial on 24 October.
Wright, 42, was capped 33 times by England and is still Arsenal's alltime record goal scorer, although Thierry Henry is poised to pass him.
Since the father of five retired from football in 2000, he has become a regular analyst on BBC1's Match of the Day and hosted his own chat show, Friday Night's All Wright on ITV1.
He was awarded the MBE in 2000 for services to football.
Details of the prosecution emerged three weeks after new rules came in to force councils to take a hard line on littering and public nuisance offences.
Anybody caught dropping even tiny items of litter, including cigarette butts, can be hit with on- the- spot fines of £ 50 , whether the offence took place on public or private land.
Earlier this week smoker Len Spierenberg became the first person to be hit by the new rules when he was fined £50 for tapping cigarette ash out of his car window in Stockport.
Even before the new powers, councils have been quick to swoop on minor incidents. An Oldham council officer fined a father £50 after his 16-month-old son dropped a drink can from his pram in January.
The same month saw Oliver Thomas, 18, fined £50 when a slice of tomato from a sandwich he was eating fell on to the pavement. Three months earlier student Alex Wray, 17, was fined £50 for flicking an elastic band at a friend while on a bus.
