“I think the frustration is that, you know, we’re all trying to run a business or run businesses and doing our own thing and just, it’s tough for all businesses at the moment,” Burton said of the fly-tipping.
“Fly-tipping causes us disruption in cost, but it also had a negative impact on their business as well and they’ve got nothing to do with it.”
GL Property Maintenance staff arrived in Hampshire to clear the waste at 08:30 BST on Friday, and Locke said Double H Nurseries were “really, really fantastic guys”.
“We all chipped in together as a team and filled up a skip, stood around and had a laugh like we’d been mates for a long time,” he said.
New Forest District Council said officers from its environmental enforcement team are investigating the incident.
The BBC contacted the number on the side of the van seen on the CCTV footage but nobody responded to a request for comment.
Two other companies of the same name were found on Companies House – one based in East Sussex dissolved in 2013, while another based in Cardiff dissolved in 2022.