South Derbyshire council recorded 5.3 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 52% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 564, most of them on the highway. Of those, 90 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £31,890 to clear. It issued 36 fixed penalty notices, 13 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.