Kingston upon Thames council recorded 17.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.6 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 2,390, most of them on the highway. Of those, 204 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £50,820 to clear. It issued 12 fixed penalty notices and brought no prosecutions.
Kingston's one-way system is that bad the fly-tippers give up and dump it before they reach the tip.