Carriers · October 2027
Digital waste tracking for waste carriers, brokers and dealers
If you carry, broker or deal in waste, your date is October 2027, not 2026. From then you record each load digitally as it moves, instead of relying on the paper transfer note alone.
The carrier app isn’t built yet. It’s priced for one-van businesses - I’ll announce the price when it’s ready.
Registered carriers, brokers and dealers
Phase 2 reaches the businesses that move or arrange waste without receiving it at their own permitted site: skip firms, muckaway and grab lorries, man-and-van clearance, scrap collectors, brokers and dealers.
Permitted sites that receive waste are in Phase 1 from 1 October 2026 in England and Wales, and from 1 January 2027 in Scotland (DAERA say January 2027 for Northern Ireland). If that’s you, read the Phase 1 page instead.
A site in Scotland or Northern Ireland that joins before 1 January 2027 pays nothing until 1 January 2027. Scotland's duty starts that day; DAERA say January 2027 for Northern Ireland.
Phase 1 and Phase 2 are not the same job
9,931permitted sites · Defra impact assessment
Permitted sites in England and Wales report waste they receive.
carriers, brokers and dealers · Defra, UK-wide
Carriers, brokers and dealers come into scope.
A site records a receipt. You record a movement, with both ends of the journey.
Tip into your own permitted site and that site is in Phase 1 already. Your carrier work follows in 2027.
What it means on a normal week
- 01
You record the movement, not the gate
A site records waste arriving. You record waste going from one place to another: where you picked it up, what it was, how much, and where you tipped it.
- 02
It happens in the cab
Plenty of carriers are one man and a tipper. The record has to be done on a phone, at the kerb, between jobs, not typed up at night.
- 03
The waste codes come with you
Each load needs the EWC code and a description. Your regular jobs repeat, so the same handful of codes cover most days.
Priced for one-van businesses - I’ll announce the price when it’s ready
The site product is from £89 a month per site, and sites can set it up themselves. A one-man tipper doesn’t need any of that and shouldn’t pay for it. The carrier plan is a cut-down version you run yourself.
Nothing to pay now, and nothing to sign. I’ll build it once Defra open beta access, so it’s tested before October 2027, not the week the rule lands.
- 01Planned: sign up, pay by card, use it. No setup fee.
- 02Planned: built for one vehicle and one driver, with the same record repeated each day.
- 03Planned: collections and deliveries, with the pickup and the tip on the same record.
- 04Planned: your waste codes and regular customers saved, so a repeat job takes seconds.
What hasn’t been decided
Separate reform of carrier, broker and dealer registration proposes a competence requirement. It isn’t finalised and no date has been announced, so treat it as proposed and nothing more.
The detailed fields and submission route for Phase 2 aren’t published in full either. I won’t tell you what they are until DEFRA do. I’m listed on GOV.UK as a software provider for the service that’s live now, and DEFRA publish the full list so you can compare.
Tell me when it’s ready for carriers
One email when the carrier app opens, and one if the rules change in a way that affects you. Nothing else.
Work is passed to you by a broker? Send them the broker page.
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