# About waste-carrier — what this site is and is not

> Where the data comes from, what is deliberately left out, and who publishes this site.

## About this site

A search layer over one public register. Not the register itself, and not a substitute for it.

### The source

Everything here comes from the Environment Agency's
 public register of waste carriers,
brokers and dealers for England, read through its open API at
`http://environment.data.gov.uk/public-register/waste-carriers-brokers/registration` and used under the
 Environment Agency Conditional
Licence , which permits re-use including commercially, with attribution.

This copy was collected on **2026-08-18** and holds
418,521 registrations.

There is nothing new about this data — the register has been public for
years. What did not exist is a way to search it that a search engine can reach:
the Environment Agency's own register pages are reachable only through a form,
and its sitemap lists **none** of them.

### What this site is not

- **Not the official register.** A registration can be granted,
renewed or revoked the day after our collection. For anything that matters,
check the Environment Agency's own service.
- **Not a quality mark.** Registration is the minimum legal
requirement. It says nothing about whether a business is any good, or whether
it disposes of waste properly once it has driven away.
- **Not affiliated** with the Environment Agency or Defra.
- **Not a broker.** Where this site invites you to describe
waste you need collected, it passes the requirement on. It does not quote, hold
prices, or take a booking.

### What is deliberately left out

The register gives a full street address and postcode for every
registration. **44 % of registrations are individuals**
— sole traders, whose registered address is usually their home. Publishing an
indexed, searchable “name to home address” index is not what the source does:
it serves those addresses one at a time, behind a form, with nothing in its
sitemap.

So the street address and the full postcode are dropped when the file is
read, before anything reaches a database. The finest geography anywhere on this
site — pages, search index, fiche, and the datasets we sell — is the
**postcode district**, which covers several thousand addresses.
This is not a limitation we might relax later.

### Coverage

England only. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland run separate registers
with their own numbering, and none of them is in this file. Of the 418,521
registrations, 3,122 have an address from
which no valid postcode area could be read; they remain searchable but appear
on no area page.

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Página: https://waste-carrier.pages.dev/about/
Fonte: Waste Carriers, Brokers and Dealers Public Register — Environment Agency, England
Recolha: 2026-08-18