Sandwell council recorded 35.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 3.3 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 12,542, most of them on the highway. Of those, 60 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £51,000 to clear. It issued 28 fixed penalty notices, 1 of them a littering fixed penalty notice issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.