Digital waste tracking is the UK government's programme to replace paper waste transfer notes and consignment notes with a single online record of every load, from producer to final site. It is being phased in; until a producer's start date, the paper or PDF transfer note remains the legal record.
Defined in the Commercial Waste Glossary.
Related: Digital Waste Tracking Explained.
Other terms
- Fly-tipping
- Waste carrier licence
- SIC code
- Dry mixed recycling
- WEEE
- Anaerobic digestion
- Waste transfer note
- EWC codes
- Waste hierarchy
- Transfer station
- General waste
- Energy from waste
- Simpler Recycling
- Landfill tax
- POPs
- Commercial waste
- Wait and load
- Trade waste
- Hazardous waste consignment note
- Materials recovery facility
- Duty of care
- Residual waste
- List of Waste code
- Controlled waste
- Upper tier waste carrier
- Pre-paid sack
- Section 34
- Annual waste transfer note
- All terms