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Overview

You must register if you do any of these things as part of your business:

You can be fined up to £5,000 if you don’t register.

Registration is usually free if you only transport waste you produce yourself. Otherwise, registration costs £154.

If waste is your main business, you’ll need:

names and dates of birth of the organisation’s executives, owners, directors or partners
details of any environmental offences they’ve committed

Once you’ve registered, your organisation’s details appear in the public register of waste carriers, brokers and dealers.

When you register, you’ll be told whether your registration is ‘upper tier’ or ‘lower tier’.

If you have an upper tier registration, you must renew your registration every 3 years. It costs £105.

You don’t need to renew a lower tier registration.

You must update your registration within 28 days if:

your organisation’s contact details change
your organisation’s management changes
someone in management is convicted of an environmental offence
your organisation changes what it does, eg you’re registered as a waste carrier, but start acting as a waste broker as well

If you registered before March 2015, email or write to the Environment Agency explaining what’s changed.

Make a new registration if you need to upgrade a lower tier registration to an upper tier registration.

Otherwise:

if you registered from March 2015, update what your organisation does online
if you registered before March 2015, email or write to the Environment Agency explaining what’s changed

It costs £154 to upgrade your registration, or £40 to change what your organisation does.

Contact the Environment Agency if you’re not sure what to do.

Quote your registration number. You’ll find it on your registration letter or email - it starts with ‘CB’.

Environment Agency nccc-carrierbroker@environment-agency.gov.uk

Environment Agency
Quadrant 2
99 Parkway Avenue
Sheffield
S9 4WF