Bolton council recorded 23.1 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 7,551, with back alleys the most common spot. Of those, 934 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £332,280 to clear. It issued 194 fixed penalty notices, 113 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 25 prosecutions.
Westhoughton folk once cut a cow's head off to save a gate. The fly-tippers round there would have dumped the gate and all.