Its all a bit unclear if there is anything in the control of asbestos regulations that outright prevents this as he is a member of the public having a clear out, rather than supplying the items as part of a business (willing to be corrrected by someone who is better at interpretting these things than me though (
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/632/contents/made )
It is however against the terms of carriage for all couriers (and as businesses, *they* would be in breah of the control of asbestos regs if they transported it for him). It is also against ebays terms to sell such items on there... however whenever I've reported items in the past, the form does makes you pick from a few drop down lists, does not allow you to write free text, an nothing happens, possibly because the person looking at the forms does not know what they are looking at