Mansfield council recorded 18.3 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.7 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,963, most of them on the highway. Of those, 7 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £1,576 to clear. It issued 17 fixed penalty notices, 6 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.