Manchester council recorded 25.6 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.3 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 14,963, most of them on the highway. Of those, 31 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £10,860 to clear. It issued 992 fixed penalty notices and brought 338 prosecutions.
A sofa dumped in Piccadilly Gardens would be the comfiest seat in the place.