Bury council recorded 15.8 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 44% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,227, with the highway the most common spot. Of those, 367 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £101,750 to clear. It issued 49 fixed penalty notices, 5 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 2 prosecutions.
Bury or Burry, somebody's dumped a fridge in it either way.