Digital waste tracking is now mandatory for receiversThe guide

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Product updates.

Writing from the LoadSnap team about UK waste compliance, the DEFRA mandate, and what we're shipping next. New posts most weeks.

A small waste transfer station with concrete push walls dividing sorted bays and a loading shovel working in front of them
Industry

Opening a waste transfer station: exemption, standard rules or bespoke permit

LoadSnap team·Oct 4, 2026·7 min
A loaded tipper standing on a weighbridge outside a site office, with the weight showing on a display by the hut window
Industry

The weighbridge ticket: what must be on it and where it goes next

LoadSnap team·Oct 4, 2026·5 min
A shop owner at a back door handing a full sack to a waste collection crew, with their collection vehicle parked in the service lane
Industry

Waste duty of care for businesses: the plain guide

LoadSnap team·Oct 4, 2026·5 min
Sorted bays of soil, crushed concrete and timber at a waste transfer station on a wet day, with roll-on containers along the fence and a digger working behind
Industry

Waste permits and exemptions explained: what the codes mean

LoadSnap team·Oct 3, 2026·8 min
A folder of paper certificates and a laptop on a depot office desk, with a row of skip and hooklift vehicles parked outside the window
Industry

Your carrier licence becomes a permit in 2027

LoadSnap team·Oct 3, 2026·6 min
A driver in a high visibility jacket handing paperwork to a site manager beside the weighbridge cabin of a waste site, with the vehicle waiting behind
Industry

Waste transfer notes: the complete guide for carriers

LoadSnap team·Oct 3, 2026·9 min
A man in a suit reading a document handed to him by a driver in a high visibility jacket, beside a skip vehicle in a yard
Industry

How to check a waste carrier licence, and what to do if it fails

LoadSnap team·Oct 3, 2026·7 min
Two workers in protective suits and high visibility vests beside asbestos cement sheets wrapped in polythene on pallets outside a farm barn
Industry

How to fill in a hazardous waste consignment note

LoadSnap team·Oct 3, 2026·8 min
A full skip of mixed builders' waste on a driveway: broken plasterboard, timber offcuts, old cupboard doors, rubble and bagged rubbish
Industry

Landfill tax went up in April. Here is what it did to a skip price

LoadSnap team·Oct 3, 2026·6 min
The view from a weighbridge office window, with a printed ticket coming out of the printer and a lorry waiting at the barrier outside
DEFRA mandate

How to submit your DEFRA receipts for free

LoadSnap team·Oct 1, 2026·6 min
A skip wagon carrying a full chain-lift skip pulling out of an industrial estate gate at dawn, wheels blurred with motion
DEFRA mandate

Carriers are in from 2027. The sites you tip at are in now

LoadSnap team·Sep 17, 2026·6 min
A scoreboard of UK waste tracking products, scored out of 100, with LoadSnap at the top on 96
Industry

Every UK digital waste tracking product, compared and scored

LoadSnap team·Sep 12, 2026·18 min

Digital waste tracking is live

The mandate is here.
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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.

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