East Hertfordshire council recorded 4.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 57% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 761, most of them on council land. Of those, 57 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £26,500 to clear. It issued 55 fixed penalty notices, 15 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.