Across the Humber Bridge, I meet Hull City Council’s Streetscene team as they arrive at a fly-tip in the middle of a housing estate.
Under this authority, the fines for fly-tipping are higher at £1,000.
As teams drag mattresses and wooden planks onto the truck, they tell a similarly frustrated story.
“It’s all over the city and now it’s on the rise,” says Mike, one of the men clearing the waste.
“We’ve got a job to do so we have to clear it and move on to the next fly-tip and do the same again.”
Carl Wilson, the team manager, tells me this location is a hotspot and criminals will be back soon enough.
“This will all get cleared away and then in a couple of weeks they’ll probably do it again,” Carl says.
“That’s why you need this evidence to catch them, to stop them, to put it to a stop.”
The authority tells me they often visit hotspots to deliver letters to residents on how to properly dispose of waste to prevent fly-tipping.