It costs money to dispose of waste legally. There is always, therefore, a black market for waste disposal.
This is particularly sensitive at the moment because there is a heightened awareness of damage being done to inland waterways in the UK: a popular TV show involving two comedians fishing has raised awareness of the value of rivers (chalk streams in particular); and, water companies (privately owned for-profit entities in the UK), have been reporting record discharges of sewage into rivers and the sea while also paying record payouts to shareholders and executives.
I think most people know of a local fly-tipping issue in the UK. This is particularly awful though, as it's clearly very professionally done, and it's also right next to an important river.
In municipalities run by non-idiots able to think more than "yeah that sounds good" steps ahead there is little black market for disposal of anything beyond the most genuinely hazardous waste because it's not prohibitively expensive to do it right.
Do you want tires and TVs in the river and woods? Charging $20 a pop at the dump is how you get tires and TVs in the woods.
This is the same problem but in larger increments.
