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Digital Waste Tracking (DWT)

DWT Phase 1: What Receiving Sites Actually Have To Do

The first three posts covered the ground DWT is built on — the three parties and two transfers of any movement, what a transfer note records, and the blind spot in the regulator’s current quarterly-return visibility. This post is about the first wave of the rollout: Phase 1. Who’s in it, when it bites, and […]

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What Digital Waste Tracking Actually Is and The Blind Spot It’s Built To Close

The first two posts in this series stayed on familiar ground: three parties, two transfers, one record per transfer, and what that record has to contain. All of that is the system as it stands today. This post is about what’s changing — but to understand what Digital Waste Tracking adds, you have to understand

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What Actually Goes On A Waste Transfer Note?

In the last post we established that a waste transfer note is a record of a transfer between two parties, that both parties carry the duty to keep it, and — importantly — that Digital Waste Tracking doesn’t make it go away. The note still has to exist. So it’s worth knowing exactly what has

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Three Parties, Two Transfers, One Record: How Waste Actually Moves

Before anyone can have a sensible conversation about Digital Waste Tracking, it’s worth getting clear on what it actually does — and what it doesn’t. There’s a common misreading that DWT replaces the waste transfer note. It doesn’t. The transfer note still has to exist between the two parties to a transfer, digital or paper,

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Important Industry Updates

Scottish Government Updates Single Use Plastics ban now in force in Scotland! Officially in force from the 1st June 2022, Scotland has become the first part of the UK to implement the ban on problematic single-use plastics. Under this ban, it is now an offence for businesses in Scotland to manufacture or supply single use

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