Maidstone council recorded 15.3 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 39% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 2,817, most of them on the highway. Of those, 470 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £215,600 to clear. It issued 45 fixed penalty notices, 17 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.