Bolsover council recorded 15.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 43% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,202, most of them on the highway. Of those, 95 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £13,052 to clear. It issued 18 fixed penalty notices, 2 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 1 prosecution.