There has always been fly-tipping, but this is a different scale. I get that companies may pay a lot to get rid of waste, but the crooks are cashing in. It ought to be possible to estimate what waste each company would produce and demand proof of where it went. Keeping track needs people on the ground and that gets expensive. AI won't solve it all. Local authorities need power to deal with it.
I do like Monbiot. He really cares about important things.
Ironically it's the land fill tax driving this! Making people pay to dump their rubbish legally, they didn't think through the enforcement issue.