Stoke-on-Trent council recorded 18.7 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.7 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 5,893, most of them on back alleys. Of those, 551 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £80,252 to clear. It issued 2,109 fixed penalty notices, 180 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
Calling it a pottery shard is pushing it, duck. That's a toilet in a hedge.