Cambridge council recorded 14.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 35% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 2,166, most of them on council land. Of those, 88 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £16,169 to clear. It issued 149 fixed penalty notices, 72 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 8 prosecutions.