Brokers and dealers arrange waste movements rather than carrying or receiving them. Here is what Digital Waste Tracking (DWT) means for you.
Your deadline
Mandatory from October 2027, alongside carriers, which is planned and has moved before. As with carriers, the sites you arrange deliveries into must record from October 2026, so expect to be asked for clean digital data a year before your own date.
Your duty
You record the movements you arrange, with your registration and authorisation numbers attached to each record.
What to do now
Keep your registration and authorisation details current
Get clean waste description and EWC code practices in place
Make sure the carriers and sites you work with can handle digital data
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