South Tyneside council recorded 27.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 2.5 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,443, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 50 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £17,380 to clear. It issued 28 fixed penalty notices, 18 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought 21 prosecutions.