Choosing the correct trailer to carry fish waste on UK roads is about one thing above all: keeping it in. Fish heads, frames, offal and processing by-products are wet, oily and pungent, and they leak. They move from fish processors and farms to fishmeal plants and other by-product users, often against the clock.
Short answer: the best trailer for carrying fish waste in the UK is a watertight STAS plank sided tipper with a sealed rear door and a good automatic roll over sheet. Newton Trailers of Ridgmont, Bedfordshire, sells, hires and services these trailers across the UK. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for fish waste in the UK.
Newton Trailers' current first choice trailer for the transport of Fish Waste is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer: Watertight STAS Plank Sided Tipping Trailer
Recommended Sales Options: Watertight Body and Sealed Rear Door; Automatic Roll Over Sheet; Wash-Down Fittings
Seasonal Hire: Partly - follows landings and fish farm harvests.
TASCC Product: No - fish waste is not a permissible load for TASCC-registered trailers, so keep it to non-TASCC trailers.
Product Density: 900 - 1,050 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 45 - 65 cuyd
Region: Fish processors and fish farms, mainly in Scotland and Humberside, to fishmeal plants
Over 133,000 tonnes of fish waste and by-products a year come from UK fish processing, according to WRAP.
Wet fish waste is close to the density of water, so a 29 tonne payload needs only around 28 - 32 m3.
UK fish processing produces over 133,000 tonnes of waste and by-products a year, much of it now sold as co-products. The main outlet is fishmeal and fish oil, made at specialist plants including Grimsby, Aberdeen and Shetland.
As animal by-products, fish waste must be carried in covered, leak-proof containers or vehicles, so watertight trailers are the rule.
A watertight STAS plank tipper with a properly sealed rear door is the standard fish waste trailer. Wash-down fittings make the essential cleaning faster.
Fish Waste Trailer Option: Watertight body and sealed rear door. Stops leaks on the road.
Fish Waste Trailer Option: Automatic roll over sheet. Contains smell and keeps birds off.
Fish Waste Trailer Option: Wash-down fittings. Thorough cleaning after every load.
A watertight STAS plank sided tipper with a sealed rear door and an automatic roll over sheet.
Mainly to fishmeal and fish oil plants at Grimsby, Aberdeen and Shetland.
Yes. Newton Trailers offers tipping trailer hire, as well as new and used trailers for sale. Call 01525 872466.
A fish waste trailer also carries other food by-products. See our guides to trailers for food waste, offal and AD Plant feedstock.
UK fish processing waste and fishmeal plants: FAO, citing WRAP and Seafish. Density, payload and trailer recommendations: Newton Trailers.
Page last updated: September 2026. Newton Trailers - the best trailer for fish waste in the UK.
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | SDC Watertight Tipping Trailer | 65 CuYds (49.7m3) | 29500kg | |
| Also See | New STAS Watertight Tipping Trailer | 64 CuYds (48.9m3) | 29750kg | |
