Braintree council recorded 5.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 46% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 807, with the highway the most common spot. Of those, 54 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £25,502 to clear. It issued 30 fixed penalty notices, 23 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.