A waste carrier licence is a registration with the Environment Agency that anyone transporting waste as part of a business must hold. Upper tier covers carrying other people's waste and is renewed every three years; lower tier covers only your own non-construction waste. The public register lists every holder. Capital Recycle is registered as CBDU466346.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Related: Who Can Legally Transport Commercial Waste in London?.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- 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
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms