Peterborough council recorded 47.2 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 4.3 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 10,474, most of them on council land. Of those, 188 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £65,800 to clear. It issued 247 fixed penalty notices, 57 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 8 prosecutions.