Redcar and Cleveland council recorded 47.0 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 5,317, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 12 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £3,200 to clear. It issued 117 fixed penalty notices, 30 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 2 prosecutions.