The National Rural Crime Network (NRCN) and Future Countryside are calling for action after figures show that local authorities in England dealt with more than 1.26 million fly-tipping incidents in 2024-25. That is a 9% increase on the previous year, although both organisations believe this doesn’t represent the true picture. The report concludes that the true scale of the problem is far greater because incidents on private land, large-scale illegal dumping handled by the Environment Agency and many unreported cases are excluded from the national data. According to the report, only 31% of incidents are investigated, with over half of…