An upper tier waste carrier is a business registered with the Environment Agency to transport other people's waste, or its own construction and demolition waste. The registration is paid for and renewed every three years, and the carrier's number appears on the public register. Any company collecting your waste should hold one.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Related: Who Can Legally Transport Commercial Waste in London?.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- Waste carrier licence
- SIC code
- Dry mixed recycling
- WEEE
- Anaerobic digestion
- Waste transfer note
- EWC codes
- Waste hierarchy
- Transfer station
- General waste
- Digital waste tracking
- Energy from waste
- Simpler Recycling
- Landfill tax
- POPs
- Commercial waste
- Wait and load
- Trade waste
- Hazardous waste consignment note
- Materials recovery facility
- Duty of care
- Residual waste
- List of Waste code
- Controlled waste
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms