Thanet council recorded 17.3 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 1.6 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 2,578, most of them on the highway. Of those, 93 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £24,560 to clear. It issued 27 fixed penalty notices, 1 of them a littering fixed penalty notice issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.