West Lindsey council recorded 14.5 fly-tipping incidents per 1,000 people a year from 2022-23 to 2024-25, 32% higher than the typical English council's 11.0. In 2024-25 it recorded 1,517, most of them on the highway. Of those, 101 were tipper-lorry loads or bigger, which cost £23,230 to clear. It issued 30 fixed penalty notices, 4 of them littering fixed penalty notices issued in conjunction with fly-tipping, and brought no prosecutions.