Registration types and tiers

Two things are recorded about every registration: its tier, which decides whether the business may handle other people's waste, and its type, which describes what it does.

Upper tier

An upper tier registration is what a business needs to carry, broker or deal in other people's waste for money. If someone is taking waste away from your premises as a service, this is the registration they must hold.

The 145,860 upper tier registrations

Lower tier

A lower tier registration covers a business moving its own waste, or one of the narrow exempt categories — a charity, a waste collection authority, or a carrier of animal by-products or mine waste. It is free and does not expire in the same way.

The 272,661 lower tier registrations

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