Waltham Forest council recorded 34.5 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 3.1 times the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 10,246, most of them on council land. Of those, 31 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £18,600 to clear. It issued 2,755 fixed penalty notices, 2,298 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.
The Stow's got the longest street market in Europe. The fly-tippers treat the pavement as an extra stall.