Basildon council recorded 29.3 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.7 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 6,220, most of them on the highway. Of those, 35 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £12,250 to clear. It issued 223 fixed penalty notices, 1 of them a littering fixed penalty notice issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 7 prosecutions.