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Compliance12 October 2026

Your quarterly waste return, after Digital Waste Tracking

Digital Waste Tracking doesn't replace the waste return your permit asks for. Permitted sites still send it every quarter, on the same form and to the same deadlines. What changes is that most of the figures already sit in the records you send to DEFRA, and the half that doesn't is the waste you send out.

Compliance23 September 2026

The two-working-day rule: how long you have to complete a waste receipt

The deadline for logging a load isn't 48 hours, and it isn't two days from the moment it tipped. It's the end of the second working day after the day the waste arrived. Here's where the clock starts, which days count, what a finished record means, and what happens if you miss it.

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