Walsall council recorded 17.9 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 6,604, most of them on the highway. Of those, 178 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £445,900 to clear. It issued 20 fixed penalty notices and brought no prosecutions.
A dumped sofa in Walsall. Even the concrete hippo would turn its arse to that.