🇬🇧 Supporting businesses across the UK✓ Fast & simple application process🔒 Secure online payments♧ Professional support

Licence Tiers

UK WASTE CARRIER REGISTRATION

Understanding waste carrier tiers

The registration category depends on what your business does with waste and the nation in which the business is based.

Lower tier

For certain lower-risk activities

Lower-tier registration can apply in specific circumstances, including certain businesses carrying waste they produce themselves. The exact rules differ between nations.

Upper tier

For wider waste activities

Upper-tier registration commonly applies when a business carries other people’s waste, carries certain construction or demolition waste, or acts as a waste broker or dealer, subject to the applicable national rules.

Important: This page is general information. Select your UK nation during the application so the relevant requirements can be considered.

Choose your service →