Brentwood council recorded 13.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 26% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,249, most of them on the highway. Of those, 113 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £66,133 to clear. It issued 165 fixed penalty notices, 55 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.