Merton council recorded 75.8 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 6.9 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 14,883, most of them on the highway. Of those, 1,500 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £184,964 to clear. It issued 1,306 fixed penalty notices, 731 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
The Wombles are made up, so somebody else is going to have to clear Wimbledon Common.