Salford council recorded 24.6 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 7,610, with the highway the most common spot. Of those, 736 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £173,900 to clear. It issued 47 fixed penalty notices, 35 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 5 prosecutions.