Waste transportation for companies registered in Sweden.
Do you transport waste professionally or handle waste within Sweden? If so, you either need a permit to transport waste or you must file a notification with the County Administrative Board.
When to apply for a permit
If you transport waste professionally, you need to apply for a permit if you are going to transport
- hazardous waste
- non-hazardous waste that exceeds 10 tonnes or 50 cubic metres per year.
If you transport waste from your own business, you need to apply for a permit if the amount of waste to be transported exceeds 100 kilos or 100 litre hazardous waste per year.
Waste from your own business includes
- waste that arises in your own operation
- waste that arises while carrying out service or maintenance work at another business operator.
Your permit is valid for 5 years
Hazardous waste permits are normally valid for five years. Permits for non-hazardous waste may be valid until further notice but can also be issued for a fixed period of time. When the permit expires you need to submit a new application to carry on transporting waste.
When submitting a notification is enough
Submit a notification to the County Administrative Board if your business
- transports other’s waste and if
- the amount of non-hazardous waste is less than 10 or 50 cubic meters per year. Each individual transport may not exceed 1 tonne or 5 cubic meters.
- transports your own waste and if
- the amount of hazardous waste is less than 100 kilos or 100 litres per year
- you will be transporting waste that is exempt from the permit requirement
- the amount of non-hazardous waste exceeds 10 tonnes or 50 cubic meters per year.
- you are traders or brokes of waste
- you collect hazardous waste professionally. You could, for example,
- own a shop
- be a scrap collector
- be a producer whose customers hand in electronic waste.
You only need to notify the collection activity, not each collection location.
You don’t need to notify if you have a permit
You don’t need to submit a notification if you already have a permit for transporting waste.
Waste transportation requiring a permit
You always need a permit to transport waste if you are transporting waste containing any of these substances:
- Mercury, other than waste containing whole (undamaged) fluorescent lamps or other light sources
- Cyanide
- Cadmium
- PCB-products
Waste exempted from the permit requirement
Certain types of waste are exempt from the permit requirement.
- waste containing hazardous agricultural chemicals (waste type 02 01 08*),
- fly ashes and boiler dust from oil combustion (waste type 10 01 04*),
- infectious waste (waste types 18 01 03* and 18 02 02*)
- waste containing asbestos (waste types 06 07 01* and 17 06 01*)
- waste from combustion or pyrolysis of household waste and similar commercial, industrial and institutional waste (waste types 19 01 05*, 19 01 06*, 19 01 07*, 19 01 10*, 19 01 13* and 19 01 15*).
If the waste has been generated through your own professional activities; you need to submit a notification to the County Administrative Board in order to transport these types of waste. This applies regardless of the quantity.
The e-services and forms of the County Administrative Board in this field are not available in English. If you wish to submit an application or notification, you may contact the County Administrative Board, which can inform you how to proceed.
Foreign company
If you have a foreign-registered company, you need to use another e-service. The service is in English, but it is possible to answer the questions in any Nordic language.