Stafford council recorded 3.6 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 67% lower than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 452, most of them on the highway. Of those, 1 was a tipper-lorry load or bigger, which cost £2,000 to clear. It issued 6 fixed penalty notices, 5 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.