Licence holders can be disqualified from driving if they build up 12 or more penalty points within a period of three years. According to government figures from the year 2024 to 2025, councils in England dealt with 1. The Environmental Services Association estimates, the cost to the economy to tackle the waste was around £1bn a year in England. A mountain of fly-tipped waste in Oxfordshire made headlines in November, which the prime minister had to address when questioned about it by Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey. The former Conservative government proposed a similar initiative in 2024. Currently, fly-tipping is a criminal offence, under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.