waste carriers licence, need a certificate?!

[Big T]

Hiya!

 

I just registered for my waste carriers licence, registered successfully but there was no option to print a certificate? I have a operator's number, is that all they ask for when tipping?

[humpo48]

Print the email reply confirmation your number is on that and that's your proof.

[Skodadog]

When I got to the tip I just gave my name and address and all the details came up, including that I got fed up waiting for the confirmation email after the page had timed out, and had registered a 2nd time and now have 2 numbers.

[Big T]

Cheers guys!

[hamdogg]

When do you actually need it?

[BrendanTreeFeller]

I think there is a difference between "registered" and "licensed" too can anyone on here enlighten us?

[niftysteve]

you can get credit card style cards once your certificate arrives through the post

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

I think there is a difference between "registered" and "licensed" too can anyone on here enlighten us?

 

Previously it was a licensing scenario, and indeed some WCL may still be valid (until 2016 I think), but tis an EA registration situation now, either 'lower tier' if just woodchip/green waste, or 'upper tier' if construction / demolition related stuff, i.e. landscape / fencing arisings.

 

See https://www.gov.uk/waste-carrier-or-broker-registration for further info.

 

Cheers..

Paul

 

PS Lower tier is free and takes 5mins to register. Upper tier is £154 (I think) and lasts for 3 years...and takes a little longer to register.

[jaime bray]

I registered recently, took few weeks to get cert through for upper tier. I occasionally do garden clearance, and come across varying rubbish in need of removal. Whilst I could have got away with lower tier and been free, sods law that id get pulled on garden clearance job.

[Burgess]

When do you actually need it?

 

Who knows? The place where we dump is a fully licenced one but they said they didn't want the number as its no relevance to them. So I suppose I'll need it if I get pulled but not otherwise?