Is ready for mandatory Digital Waste Tracking?
Paper waste transfer notes are being retired. Answer a few quick questions and see your readiness score, your exact compliance deadline and the gaps to close, straight away. No sign-up and no email needed.
- Connected to DEFRA DWT
- Built for producers, carriers & receivers
- No sign-up needed
Which best describes your business?
Pick one to start. You can go back at any point.
Built for the DWT mandate
See your readiness score in about two minutes.
Compliant and audit-ready, or exposed under the new rules?
Quick questions across the five areas the Environment Agency will judge you on. We score each one, pinpoint your biggest gaps, and map them to your exact mandate deadline, then show you the fastest way to close them. Your report shows on screen as soon as you finish.
DWT Readiness Report
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Overall readiness
You'll be scored against five key areas
These are the pillars the Digital Waste Tracking mandate is built on. We assess each one from your answers, then show you where your compliance risk is highest.
Record-Keeping & Documentation
How transfer and consignment notes are created, stored and retrieved.
Point-of-Movement Capture
Whether waste details are captured digitally at collection and receipt.
Classification & Data Quality
Correct EWC codes and hazardous detail on every movement.
Audit & Reporting
How fast you could produce records for the Environment Agency.
DEFRA Connection & Integration
Readiness to submit movements straight to the DWT service.
Two minutes now could save a failed audit later.
Why these five areas
What the assessment measures, and why.
Mandatory digital waste tracking has applied to receiving sites in England and Wales since 1 October 2026, starts in Scotland and Northern Ireland in January 2027, and is planned to reach carriers, brokers and dealers in October 2027. Being ready is not one thing - it is a handful of operational habits, and most businesses are strong in some and exposed in others.
The assessment asks a few questions about your business, then scores your answers across the five areas below, and maps the result to the deadline that applies to your role and nation. You get a percentage per area, a banded verdict, and the specific gaps to close first - not a generic "go digital" lecture.
Answer honestly rather than aspirationally. The point is to find the weak areas while there is still time to fix them cheaply, and if the answer is "we're already fine", the report will tell you that too.
The five areas
What you'll be scored on.
These are the operational pillars the mandate is built on. Each is scored separately, so you can see exactly where the compliance risk sits.
Record-keeping & documentation
How transfer and consignment notes are created, stored and retrieved today. Paper and scattered spreadsheets are exactly what the mandate retires - and the slowest thing to migrate under deadline pressure.
Point-of-movement capture
Whether waste details are captured digitally at collection or receipt, or written up later from memory. The regulations put a clock on receipt records, so capture that happens at the gate matters.
Classification & data quality
Correct EWC codes and hazardous detail on every movement. Digital records are validated, so classification habits that slid by on paper become visible errors in the new service.
Audit & reporting
How fast you could produce full waste records if the Environment Agency asked tomorrow. Digital tracking makes this the regulator's cheapest check to run - and your easiest one to fail.
DEFRA connection & integration
Whether your systems are connected, or ready to connect, to DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking service - and whether the businesses around you are on connected records or disconnected paperwork.
The report
What you get at the end.
Your report shows an overall readiness percentage, a score and status for each of the five areas - ready, gaps to close, or urgent - and your mandate date, with a live countdown if it is still ahead. Every low-scoring area comes with a plain-English note on what the gap means and the fastest way to close it.
If the report flags your DEFRA connection as the weak point, the practical next steps are usually the same two: sort each site's DWT registration, and pick software that already submits to the service. LoadSnap's DEFRA integration is on the gov.uk software-provider register under Webhero, having passed all of DEFRA's production approval test scenarios with no exemptions - and our DWT code walkthrough covers the registration side.
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