Thurrock council recorded 15.9 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 45% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 3,037, most of them on the highway. Of those, 173 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £8,650 to clear. It issued 1,112 fixed penalty notices, 39 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
Grays and Tilbury could settle their grudge at the tip. Same shit, neutral ground.