Bristol council recorded 20.5 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.9 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 10,266, most of them on the highway. Of those, 60 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger. It issued 217 fixed penalty notices, 55 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 5 prosecutions.