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.