20 days until digital waste tracking is mandatoryThe guide

Mass balance

The short answer

What came into a site against what went out. Destroying material does not reduce what was received, because the site did receive it; the destruction is an output, not a cancellation.

In practice

Regulators use the gap between the two as a first question at a permitted site. A site that cannot account for the difference has either lost material or lost paperwork, and neither answer is comfortable.

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