Official Statistics

Fly-tipping statistics for England

Name: Fly-tipping statistics for England
Creator: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published: 2012-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

Annual incidents of fly-tipping in England.

From:

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Published:

18 December 2012

Last updated:

25 February 2026

Show all updates

25 February 2026
Annual update.
26 February 2025
Annual update.
13 March 2024
Updates to HTML text file, charts and datasets.
29 February 2024
Various amendments and revisions to datasets as well as numerous textual changes.
31 January 2024
Reporting errors in the return.
17 January 2024
2023 data published.
25 August 2023
Amendments made to attachment entitled "Local Authority fly-tipping enforcement league tables for England, 2021/22".
23 August 2023
Additional fly-tipping publication, “Local authority fly-tipping enforcement league tables for England, 2021/22" added to landing page.
31 January 2023
New annual publication with data for 2021 to 2022.
8 December 2021
Three datasets updated.
8 December 2021
Updated publication with data for 2020/21 added.
24 February 2021
Statistical release with data for 2019/20.
7 September 2020
Releases for 2018/19 and 2017/18 have been made accessible.
7 November 2019
New annual publication.
15 November 2018
2018 publication released.
19 October 2017
Annual fly tipping statistical notice for 2016/17.
6 March 2017
Explanation of breach report added for this statistical notice.
2 March 2017
Annual update for the financial year 2015-16.
20 October 2015
new fly tipping figures for 2014 to 2015 published.
4 February 2015
There have been very minor data revisions made to the ‘actions’ for both 2012/13 and 2013/14 and the ‘outcomes’ figures for 2013/14.
30 October 2014
Annual update.
15 October 2013
2013 data
11 April 2013
Added a line linking to ENV24 and a new table on EA actions.
18 December 2012
First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Fly-tipping statistics for England, 2024 to 2025

HTML

Flytipping incidents and actions taken (national level data) 2007-08 to 2024-25

ODS, 45.9 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Flytipping incidents and actions taken (reported by LAs in England) 2012-13 to 2024-25

ODS, 2.03 MB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Fly-tipping statistical release figures and tables dataset

ODS, 6.44 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Details

This publication summarises the number and type of fly-tipping incidents and the enforcement actions taken against fly tipping in England.

Fly-tipping is the illegal deposit of waste on land contrary to Section 33(1)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The types of waste fly-tipped range from ‘black bag’ waste to large deposits of materials such as industrial waste, tyres, construction material and liquid waste. Fly-tipping is a significant blight on local environments; a source of pollution; a potential danger to public health and hazard to wildlife. It also undermines legitimate waste businesses where unscrupulous operators undercut those operating within the law.

Local councils and the Environment Agency (EA) both have a responsibility in respect of illegally deposited waste. Local councils deal with most cases of fly tipping on public land, whilst the EA investigates and enforces against the larger, more serious and organised illegal waste crimes.

The associated data is available in CSV format and can be found here: Fly-tipping in England - data.gov.uk