DEFRA has published the 2015/16 statistics on flytipping. For the 2015/16 year, local authorities dealt with 936 thousand fly-tipping incidents, a 4.0 % increase over 2014/15. Local authorities carried out 494 thousand enforcement actions in 2015/16 at an estimated cost of £16.9 million, nearly £700 thousand decrease on 2014/15.