Are you ready for digital waste tracking?
A free self-audit checklist for waste sites, carriers, brokers and dealers. Permitted and licensed receiving sites in England and Wales have recorded every load in the Digital Waste Tracking Service since 1 October 2026; the checklist shows where your own records stand.
Download the free checklist (PDF) Fillable version (PDF)
No form, no sign-up. Just the PDF.
What the checklist covers
- Where your current waste records will and won’t meet the digital tracking standard
- What “digital” actually needs to mean for your paperwork, systems and duty of care
- The gaps that turn into a rejected load or a stalled site
- What to fix first, in plain order of priority
Watch a load being recorded in three minutes
A load arriving at a permitted site and being recorded in the Digital Waste Tracking Service, from waste type and weight through carrier and vehicle to the Defra reference coming back.
The carrier trap
Your own recording duty is planned for October 2027 and is not yet in statute. In practice that does not help you.
Receiving sites in England and Wales have recorded every load since 1 October 2026; Scotland and Northern Ireland follow from 1 January 2027. Full dates and rules.
The sites you tip at in England and Wales have had to record your load since 1 October 2026, and they need enough correct information to do it: your registration live and matching what the Environment Agency holds, the right waste code and description, weights, vehicle registration. Get any of it wrong and the load can be paused or refused at the gate. Your working deadline is the one the site already has.
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Page last reviewed 8 October 2026.