Harlow council recorded 26.0 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.4 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 2,546, most of them on council land. Of those, 8 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £839 to clear. It issued 253 fixed penalty notices, 14 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.