Luton council recorded 46.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 4.2 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 11,599, most of them on council land. Of those, 94 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £34,650 to clear. It issued 144 fixed penalty notices, 39 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.