Phase 2 extends the Digital Waste Tracking (DWT) mandate to the businesses that move and arrange waste, rather than the sites that receive it. If you are a carrier, broker or dealer, this is your phase. The headline date is October 2027, but your practical deadline is earlier (see the carrier workflow article).
Who is in Phase 2
Carriers and transporters: businesses that physically move waste
Brokers and dealers: businesses that arrange waste movements
What Phase 2 requires you to do
Carriers record the waste movements they transport, capturing the journey from the point of production
Brokers and dealers record the movements they arrange, with their registration and authorisation numbers attached to each record
When it starts
October 2027 is the planned mandatory date for carriers, brokers and dealers. Worth knowing: DWT has slipped twice already, and dates beyond October 2026 remain planned rather than locked in legislation. Treat 2027 as a working assumption and watch for confirmation.
What comes after Phase 2
Later phases are expected to bring in:
Registered exemption holders, around 150,000 of them
Green list waste exports, where the Annex VII data moves onto DWT while the form still travels with the load
The catch for carriers and brokers
October 2027 is not a free pass to wait. Because receiving sites must record inbound loads from October 2026, and your details are part of that record, receivers will demand clean digital handover data a full year before your own deadline. A load that turns up without it can be refused at the gate. The detail is in the carrier workflow article.
How LoadSnap helps in Phase 2
Because the LoadSnap driver side is just a photo, by the driver portal or a shared photo, carriers can supply the data a receiving site needs without taking on heavy software ahead of their own mandate. Licences are checked against the Environment Agency register, so the carriers you work with can confirm they present as compliant before they arrive.