Licensed and legal
Your duty of care, in plain English, and how to check any waste carrier in about a minute.
The rule nobody mentions
If you pay someone to take your waste away, the law puts a duty on you to check they are a registered carrier. Not on them. On you.
So when a van-load of your old kitchen turns up in a lay-by outside Bunwell, the council goes through it, finds an envelope with your address on it, and writes to you. The man you paid forty quid is not part of that conversation.
How to check anyone in about a minute
Every registered waste carrier has a registration number. You can look it up on the Environment Agency public register, free, in less time than it takes to make a cup of tea.
Our numbers are in the footer of every page on this site. Check them. Then ask whoever else quoted you for theirs, and watch what happens.
What you get from us
- A registration number you can verify before we turn up
- A waste transfer note showing what we took and where it went
- A scrap licence for the district we are collecting in
- A certificate of destruction on any vehicle
None of that is us going above and beyond. It is the legal minimum. The interesting question is why so few people in this trade can show it to you.