Preston council recorded 35.4 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 3.2 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,642, most of them on footpaths and bridleways. Of those, 792 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £241,800 to clear. It issued 20 fixed penalty notices, 4 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.