Waste tracking is now mandatoryGuide

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Watch LoadSnap work. Filmed in the real product.

Pick the side of the trade you are on and watch one load go through it, start to finish. Narrated, captioned, four minutes at most. The phone apps are underneath.

This is what receiving waste looks like in LoadSnap.

Filmed in the product, not drawn in a slide deck. A real load through a real gate.

A load in at the gate, checked and filed

The three ways a receipt starts, a load the gate sent up being checked at a desk, the DEFRA filing and the quarterly return, carriers checked against the register, and the gate fee behind it.

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Spoken throughout. Captions are on the CC button, in the same words.

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  1. 0:00This is a receiving site in LoadSnap, from the load on the weighbridge to the DEFRA filing.
  2. 0:05The dashboard tells you what needs doing. Here, three loads the gate has weighed in, waiting for the office to check them.
  3. 0:11Every load the site has taken in, whatever stage its paperwork is at.
  4. 0:16A receipt starts one of three ways.
  5. 0:18Type it in, scan the paper transfer note the driver handed you, or type the code the carrier gave you and the whole load comes through.
  6. 0:27This one came up from the gate. Open it, and the load, the carrier and the weight are all here.
  7. 0:31The checklist says what's still missing before DEFRA would. This one has no waste code.
  8. 0:36Click it, search by number or by name, and pick it.
  9. 0:41Saved as you go, and the checklist ticks it off.
  10. 0:44When it is right, one press sends it to DEFRA. Nothing goes until a person has checked it.
  11. 0:49Everything that has gone to DEFRA, with the tracking number they give back.
  12. 0:54And the quarterly return to the Environment Agency builds itself from the same loads.
  13. 0:59Every carrier that tips here is checked against the public register, so a lapsed licence shows up at the gate, not at an audit.
  14. 1:07Gate fees are invoiced from the loads you took in, so nothing is typed twice.
  15. 1:11Weighed once, checked once, filed once.

The phone apps

And on a phone at the weighbridge

The phone is optional. If your weighbridge is run from the office, the same load is taken in on the screen above and nobody needs a phone at all.

What your weighbridge operative sees

Whoever is on the bridge or out in the yard can take the load in on a phone, by hand or by scanning the driver's code, and it is away before the lorry pulls off. We call that person a weighbridge operative.

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DEFRA rollout

What the films show is Phase 1. Here is what changes in Phase 2.

DEFRA mandates the receiving side first and the carrying side a year later. LoadSnap is built for both, and the receiving workflow simply gets shorter when carriers come on board.

Phase 1 · nowFrom 1 October 2026

Receivers file, as in the receiving film

The carrier still arrives with a paper transfer note, so the receiving site is the one that records the movement digitally and files it to DEFRA.

  • Operative selects the carrier from the saved library and adds the vehicle and driver
  • Each item captured - photo + AI-suggested EWC where the load's visible, manual entry for sealed loads; the operative confirms
  • Container, form and weight captured at the bridge
  • Back office reviews and files the movement - a Waste Tracking ID comes back
Phase 2 · nextExpected from 2027

Carriers join - and the receiver flow gets shorter

Once carriers are mandated, the movement is created and given a Waste Tracking ID when the job is planned. The driver carries that ID to the gate, so the receiver stops re-keying and starts confirming.

  • The operative enters the carrier's code; the waste details pre-fill from the carrier's submission
  • They still photograph and weigh the load - that part doesn't change
  • Back office checks what the carrier filed to DEFRA against what actually arrived
  • If the figures don't match, they correct the record before it's finalised

Digital waste tracking is live

The mandate is here.
Automate compliance.

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.

DEFRA API integrated · EA carrier verification · UK data residency