Newham council recorded 60.4 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 5.5 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 26,502, most of them on the highway. Of those, 3,113 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £1,132,800 to clear. It issued 14,502 fixed penalty notices, 12,845 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 1 prosecution.