Bexley council recorded 15.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 45% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,787, most of them on the highway. Of those, 21 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £11,150 to clear. It issued 628 fixed penalty notices, 572 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
Bexley built a cathedral for its sewage at Crossness. Its fly-tippers just leave theirs on the verge.