Plymouth council recorded 20.4 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.9 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,370, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 20 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £4,500 to clear. It issued 281 fixed penalty notices, 113 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 23 prosecutions.
Dumping a mattress on the Hoe is a shit way to claim a sea view.