Bassetlaw council recorded 17.1 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.6 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,768, most of them on the highway. Of those, 78 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £24,786 to clear. It issued 15 fixed penalty notices, 2 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 9 prosecutions.