The registration is not the whole story, but it is the first line.
An unregistered carrier cannot lawfully move your waste. If they do, and it ends up in a field, the Environment Agency traces it back to the business that produced it. That is you.
Registrations lapse quietly.
Upper tier registrations run for three years. Nobody tells you when your collector's runs out. They may not have noticed themselves.
This is a public register. We just made it searchable.
The data comes from the Environment Agency's own register, published under the Open Government Licence. We do not add to it, edit it, or charge for it.