Wastefulness

I sympathise fully with people who get frustrated with that wretched IKEA self-assembly furniture, but most of us can find someone cleverer than we are to help out.  However, one person decided to just dump the pieces, along with the huge cardboard box they were delivered in, outside our row of garages.  We know this has to be cleared away quickly, otherwise it's considered a dumping place and more arrives.  So I folded up the cardboard into a sizes suitable to be picked up with the recycling, and my neighbour sawed up the wood for my open fire.  What a terrible waste, though!  This isn't a prosperous area.  Everyone feels so poor.  How can this happen?  I think the thing must have cost about £150.  This is a road few people use.  Just leaving it there and hoping somebody would take it wouldn't work very quickly.  What should I have done with it?