Folkestone and Hythe council recorded 16.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.5 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 2,200. Of those, 22 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £5,500 to clear. It issued 166 fixed penalty notices, 5 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 1 prosecution.