DIGITAL WASTE TRACKING · BROKERS AND DEALERS FROM OCTOBER 2027
Digital waste tracking for waste brokers and dealers
You arrange the movements, other people's lorries do the driving. Digital waste tracking is coming for brokers and dealers too, and DEFRA plans to make it mandatory from October 2027. Here's what that means for you.
Already using Wastrio
- And sites of every size
What's coming
What's coming for waste brokers and dealers
Phase 1 is receiving sites, which have been reporting every load they take in since 1 October 2026 in England and Wales. Carriers, brokers and dealers are phase 2. DEFRA's published plan is an invited group from autumn 2026, open to all from spring 2027, and mandatory from October 2027. DEFRA hasn't published exactly what brokers and dealers will have to report yet.
Now
What brokers and dealers have to do now
You don't report into digital waste tracking yet. Your duty of care hasn't changed, and every transfer still needs a transfer note. Paper notes aren't banned.
Why it matters
Why digital waste tracking matters more for brokers
A broker can have dozens of customers, carriers and sites on the go at once. When reporting comes in, that's a lot of movements to keep straight, across a lot of people who aren't you.
Talk to us
Talk to us
Tell us how you work, how many movements you arrange a month and who you arrange them with, and we'll show you what Wastrio does for you today and what we'll tell you as DEFRA publishes the detail.
Questions
Waste broker and dealer questions
When do waste brokers have to use digital waste tracking?
DEFRA plans to make it mandatory for carriers, brokers and dealers from October 2027, with the service open to all of them from spring 2027.
Do brokers need to report anything now?
Not into digital waste tracking. Your duty of care still applies, so every transfer still needs a transfer note.
I'm a broker and I run a permitted site. Am I in scope now?
Your site is, since 1 October 2026, for every load it receives. Your broking side comes later.
Read the plain English guide to digital waste tracking, or see how registering with DEFRA works.
Tell us how you work and we'll call you back.