Digital waste tracking is now mandatory for receiversThe guide

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Watch LoadSnap work. Filmed in the real product.

Pick the side of the trade you are on and watch one load go through it, start to finish. Narrated, captioned, four minutes at most. The phone apps are underneath.

This is what receiving waste looks like in LoadSnap.

Filmed in the product, not drawn in a slide deck. A real load through a real gate.

A load in at the gate, checked and filed

The three ways a receipt starts, a load the weighbridge sent up being checked at a desk, the filing that follows it, and the gate fee behind it.

In this film

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Spoken throughout. Captions are on the CC button, in the same words.

Read the film insteadevery line it says, 18 lines
  1. 0:00This is a receiving site, from the lorry on the weighbridge to the DEFRA filing.
  2. 0:05Every load the site has taken in, whatever stage its paperwork is at.
  3. 0:09The filing deadline is two working days from the load arriving, and it is counted for you.
  4. 0:14A receipt starts one of three ways.
  5. 0:16You type it in, you scan the paper transfer note the carrier handed you, or you pull the whole load through with a Connect code.
  6. 0:23The scan reads the note with OCR and fills in what it can. The code pulls the carrier, the transport and every waste item straight off the carrier's own record.
  7. 0:33A load weighed in at the gate arrives here as a draft for somebody at a desk to check.
  8. 0:38The gate captures the load, and the desk is where it is checked.
  9. 0:42The weight off the weighbridge, the haulier that brought it, and the code it came in under.
  10. 0:47Nothing is filed until a person has checked it, and the desk is told what is still missing before DEFRA would say so.
  11. 0:54Checked over, it goes to DEFRA on one press, and until then the record says plainly they have not had it.
  12. 1:00Only a receipt is filed with DEFRA, and this is what has gone, with the tracking number it gives back.
  13. 1:06The quarterly consignee return builds itself out of the same records.
  14. 1:10Every haulier that tips here is on file, with its registration and somebody to ring.
  15. 1:15Each one is checked against the Environment Agency register, so a lapsed licence shows at the gate rather than at an audit.
  16. 1:22Gate fees go out on the loads you took, off the same records.
  17. 1:26Every note and certificate is filed against the record it came from.
  18. 1:30Weighed once, checked once, filed once.

The phone apps

And on a phone at the weighbridge

The phone is optional. If your weighbridge is run from the office, the same load is taken in on the screen above and nobody needs a phone at all.

What your weighbridge operative sees

Whoever is on the bridge or out in the yard can take the load in on a phone, by hand or by scanning the driver's code, and it is away before the lorry pulls off. We call that person a weighbridge operative.

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DEFRA rollout

What the films show is Phase 1. Here is what changes in Phase 2.

DEFRA mandates the receiving side first and the carrying side a year later. LoadSnap is built for both, and the receiving workflow simply gets shorter when carriers come on board.

Phase 1 · nowFrom 1 October 2026

Receivers file, as in the receiving film

The carrier still arrives with a paper transfer note, so the receiving site is the one that records the movement digitally and files it to DEFRA.

  • Operative selects the carrier from the saved library and adds the vehicle and driver
  • Each item captured - photo + AI-suggested EWC where the load's visible, manual entry for sealed loads; the operative confirms
  • Container, form and weight captured at the bridge
  • Back office reviews and files the movement - a Waste Tracking ID comes back
Phase 2 · nextExpected from 2027

Carriers join - and the receiver flow gets shorter

Once carriers are mandated, the movement is created and given a Waste Tracking ID when the job is planned. The driver carries that ID to the gate, so the receiver stops re-keying and starts confirming.

  • The operative enters the carrier's code; the waste details pre-fill from the carrier's submission
  • They still photograph and weigh the load - that part doesn't change
  • Back office checks what the carrier filed to DEFRA against what actually arrived
  • If the figures don't match, they correct the record before it's finalised

Digital waste tracking is live

The mandate is here.
Automate compliance.

Receiving sites in England and Wales have had to record every load digitally since 1 October 2026. Start a 14-day free trial in minutes, cancel any time before it ends, and file every load from day one.

DEFRA API integrated · EA carrier verification · UK data residency