Derby council recorded 22.0 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.0 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 6,477, most of them on the highway. Of those, 63 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £22,150 to clear. It issued 182 fixed penalty notices, 23 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.