Barking and Dagenham council recorded 23.0 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.1 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 7,617, most of them on footpaths and bridleways. Of those, 3,432 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £1,233,840 to clear. It issued 158 fixed penalty notices and brought no prosecutions.