Middlesbrough council recorded 18.2 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 2,753, with council land the most common spot. Of those, 220 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £45,452 to clear. It issued 53 fixed penalty notices, 11 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 7 prosecutions.