Ipswich council recorded 7.4 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 33% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 840, most of them on the highway. Of those, 2 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £800 to clear. It issued 19 fixed penalty notices, 2 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 6 prosecutions.