A local authority has received nearly 6,500 reports of fly-tipping over the past 12 months.
Middlesbrough Council has secured eight court prosecutions and issued 87 fixed penalty notices for environmental crime related offences.
Independent councillor Joan McTigue said it was becoming “a weekly event” in her Longlands and Beechwood ward and said she hoped the culprits were caught.
Ian Blades, executive member for neighbourhoods, said “fly-tipping is lazy and anti-social and can blight entire neighbourhoods”.