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You have to be particularly naive to let some cold caller take your rubbish away for a below market price. You should check their waste removal license. If you don't, you can have no complaints when someone comes knocking.
eskay-
In my experience a lot of homeowners don't know the cost of removing waste. When I organise a skip for a client as part of work I'm doing in their house 90% of the time the cost comes as a shock. Sometimes the client will ask me to bag up waste so they can dispose of it themselves. What they do afterwards I don't know but if someone comes along and offers to get rid of the problem for relatively little money I'd imagine more than one or two people would be tempted
FYI there is no such thing as a waste removal licence. There is a waste carrier's licence, it costs £164 and lasts 3 years, most people who own a commercial vehicle have one.
Bobbo
People do get caught just not the guys who actually do it.
What normally happens is someone doing DIY or small building works will have bags of rubbish outside their house. A person in a clapped out white van will offer to dispose of the rubbish for £xxx (amount varies but it is less than the cost of disposing of it legally). Said person proceeds to flytip the rubbish wherever they can. When the council eventually comes to clear it they will sift through it and look for evidence of who did it and if they find a receipt will prosecute the person who has been duped into paying someone to flytip.
Meanwhile the government's idea for tackling this is to make it MORE expensive for businesses and homeowners to dispose of rubbish.