Richmond upon Thames council recorded 23.4 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.1 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,611, most of them on the highway. It issued 53 fixed penalty notices, 42 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
A fly-tipped fridge in Richmond. The residents' association may never recover.