Digital Waste Tracking

DEFRA submission is live

From 1 October 2026 every permitted receiving site must record incoming waste on DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking service; carriers follow in October 2027. This page is the live status of ComplyWaste's integration — updated the moment anything changes.

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Sandbox conformance — passed 14 / 14
14 July 2026
Every scenario in DEFRA's Production Approval Test suite ran against the official integration sandbox and behaved as specified — creates, updates, multi-item loads, hazardous consignments and the rejection cases DEFRA requires us to handle.
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DEFRA production approval
Granted
DEFRA reviews conformance results before issuing production credentials. This is DEFRA's review timeline, not ours — no software changes are needed on our side.
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Live submission
Live now
Automatic submission is live: every receipt files to DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking service as it's captured, and previously stored records can be submitted from the feed — nothing re-entered.

What happens to records you capture now

Every receipt is validated against DEFRA's own rules at the gate and stored as the complete DEFRA payload, verbatim — not our format translated later. At go-live, stored records submit as they are and new receipts file automatically. Nothing is re-keyed, nothing captured early is wasted.

Official sources

GOV.UK — Waste tracking service guidance ↗ — DEFRA's official page for the service, deadlines and updates.
GOV.UK — Waste duty of care code of practice ↗ — the statutory duty your records evidence today.

Deadlines and scope are set by DEFRA and may change — the official guidance above is always authoritative.

Submission is live — set up your site today

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