Health & Safety

Your waste carrier registration, tracked before it expires

Carrying your own waste needs registration with the Environment Agency, SEPA or NRW, and it runs out. Gaffer holds the registration details, the tier, the issuing body and the expiry — and surfaces it alongside your other compliance expiries rather than leaving it to a diary note.

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How the waste carrier register works in Gaffer

Your registrations held as records with expiry dates that surface before they lapse.

Registration and tier

Registration number, the tier you are registered at and the issuing body are recorded, so the right details are to hand when a client or contractor asks for them.

Expiry that surfaces

Registration expiry joins your certificate and qualification expiries in one alerting stream, instead of being remembered every three years.

Evidence for clients

Principal contractors routinely ask for waste carrier registration during onboarding. Holding it here means it can be produced immediately.

What you get

Waste carrier registration sits with your transfer notes, scheme memberships and expiry alerts in one platform.

  • Registration number recorded against the business
  • Registration tier captured — upper or lower
  • Issuing body recorded: Environment Agency, SEPA or Natural Resources Wales
  • Issue date and expiry date held on the record
  • Expiry surfaced through the same alerts as certificates and qualifications
  • Available to produce during contractor onboarding and PQQs
  • Linked to the waste transfer notes it authorises

Common questions about waste carrier register

Do I need to register as a waste carrier?

If you transport waste your business produced, in most cases yes — builders, electricians, plumbers, landscapers and tree surgeons moving their own waste generally need at least lower tier registration. Carrying other people's waste requires upper tier.

What is the difference between upper and lower tier?

Lower tier covers carrying your own waste and certain specified wastes, and does not expire in the same way. Upper tier covers carrying waste produced by others, must be renewed every three years and carries a fee.

What happens if it lapses?

Carrying waste without valid registration is an offence and can carry a substantial fine, and it will fail a contractor compliance check. That is precisely why the expiry is surfaced with your other renewals rather than kept separately.

Where does this show up for clients?

It sits with your scheme memberships and accreditations, so when a principal contractor's onboarding pack asks for waste carrier registration, it is in the same place as everything else they ask for.

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