Rated Skip Hire

Check the register

In England anyone who transports waste for others, including a skip hire company, must be registered with the Environment Agency as a waste carrier, broker or dealer. The register is public. This page searches the 1,104 entries with “skip” in the name that we read on 31 Oct 2026; for anything else, use the official search.

What the entry tells you

  • Registration number, CBDU for upper tier and CBDL for lower tier. A skip hire company that carries other people’s waste needs an upper tier registration, which must be renewed every 3 years; lower tier registrations do not expire (GOV.UK, “Register or renew as a waste carrier, broker or dealer”, read 31 Oct 2026).
  • Type: carrier (transports waste), broker (arranges transport or disposal for others), dealer (buys and sells waste). Most skip hire companies hold all three.
  • Expires: the date after which the registration lapses unless renewed. We show the date as read on 31 Oct 2026; it may have been renewed since.

Why it matters to you

Under section 34(2A) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 a householder must take reasonable measures to make sure household waste goes only to an authorised person. The Waste duty of care code of practice says that when you use a private business you should check that it is an authorised carrier with a valid upper tier registration, and it recommends keeping a record of the check, including the registration number (GOV.UK, code of practice, read 31 Oct 2026). Write the CBDU number on your booking and you have done what the code asks.

England only

This register covers England. Scotland (SEPA), Wales (Natural Resources Wales) and Northern Ireland (DAERA) each run a separate registration, so the companies listed on our Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Swansea pages are not checked here.

How we use it on the company plates

“Registered waste carrier CBDU…” on a plate means the Google Maps name matches an entry with the same postcode district. “Match to be confirmed” means the names resemble each other but are not identical. A plate without a registration number means we have not found an entry yet, which is not the same as the company being unregistered: trading names and registered names often differ.