# Waste carrier register datasets — waste-carrier

> The England waste carrier register, extracted, normalised and enriched. Change feed, one slice, or full snapshot, with prices.

## The register, prepared

Everything on this site is free to read. What is sold is the work of pulling 418,521 rows out of a paginated API, normalising them, and keeping the difference between one collection and the next.

The pages of this site are free and will stay free : **an official fact belongs to no one**. What is sold here is the compilation work — extracting the Environment Agency waste carrier register, reconciling it, dating it, and delivering it in a usable form.

### What is worth buying is the flow, not the stock

A published register is a state at one instant. What it does not publish is **the list of what has just changed** : every record carries its date, but nowhere can you ask for « everything that moved since 2026-08-18 ». To get it you have to re-read the whole file and diff it — every month.

About **6 435 new registrations a month** are recorded. That is the rate at which a snapshot ages, and it is why the subscription is listed first and the snapshot last.

That monthly figure is measured, not estimated: 77,222
registrations carry a registration date in 2025, the last full year in the
file. 2026 is excluded because it is still running.

There is a second reason the feed matters more here than on most registers:
**registrations expire**. 13,014 run out
during 2026 and 43,954 during 2027. A snapshot does
not go stale gradually — parts of it become wrong on a known date.

- **Change feed — GBP 300 / month**Or GBP 3 000 a year. At every collection, what came in, went out or changed since the previous one. This is the part that does not age.
- **One slice — GBP 90 / month**The feed restricted to a single postcode area, for those who do not need the rest.
- **Full snapshot — GBP 4 000, once**The state of the register on the day of delivery, every field included. Listed last on purpose : a snapshot ages.

### What you get, field by field

*Fields delivered and fill rate, measured on the rows actually delivered — not estimated*

| Field | Description | Filled |
|---|---|---|
| `registration_number` | The key — CBDU or CBDL followed by digits. | 100.0 % |
| `business_name` | As registered. | 100.0 % |
| `company_number` | Companies House number, where the registrant has one. | 23.0 % |
| `tier` | Upper or lower — the distinction that decides what the business may legally carry. | 100.0 % |
| `registration_type` | Carrier, broker, dealer, or a combination. | 100.0 % |
| `applicant_type` | Company, sole trader, partnership, charity, public body. | 99.1 % |
| `registration_date` | When it was granted. | 100.0 % |
| `expiry_date` | When it runs out. | 34.9 % |
| `postcode_district` | ⚠️ The outward code of the business address, extracted and validated against the real list of GB postcode areas. | 99.3 % |
| `postcode_area` | ⚠️ The one or two leading letters, with the town that names it — B is Birmingham, PE is Peterborough. | 99.3 % |
| `nation` | ⚠️ England, Scotland or Wales, derived from the area. | 99.3 % |
| `is_natural_person` | ⚠️ Whether the registrant is an individual rather than an organisation, taken from the applicant type the source declares. | 100.0 % |
| `single_extraction` | ⚠️ The source has no bulk file: it is served 1,000 rows at a time through an API whose pagination is undocumented. This is the whole register in one table. | 100.0 % |

The 5 fields marked ⚠️ **do not exist in the source** : we add them — a join, a normalisation, or a reconstructed history. That is the part a buyer cannot reproduce by downloading the official file.

The five marked fields are the reason to buy rather than fetch. The
Environment Agency publishes no bulk file for this register: it is an API that
returns 1,000 rows at a time, and **its pagination is not
documented** — `_page`, `_pageSize` and
`_start` all return 400, only `_offset` works, and
without a sort parameter consecutive batches can overlap. Getting the whole
register out is a job, not a download.

**What we do not sell, at any price:** street
addresses and full postcodes. 44 % of the registrations are
individuals — sole traders whose registered address is their home. The source
publishes it; we drop it at ingestion and it is in no file we deliver. The
finest geography we hold, sell or show is the postcode district.

### Order

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Prices in GBP, before any applicable tax. Delivered as CSV and Parquet, by download link. Every request is answered by hand.

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