Rochdale council recorded 23.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.2 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,302, most of them on the highway. Of those, 458 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £117,910 to clear. It issued 15 fixed penalty notices, 11 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 7 prosecutions.
Driving all the way up to Hollingworth Lake to dump a fence panel. Weighvers' Seaport, my arse.