iWaste ready for mandatory Digital Waste Tracking from 1 October 2026

Our in-house portal now reports directly to Defra – with no change to how you work with us

Defra is introducing mandatory Digital Waste Tracking for permitted waste receiving sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1 October 2026, with Scotland following in January 2027.

The new service creates a digital record of waste received at permitted facilities, replacing a largely paper-based process and giving regulators a clearer view of waste movements.

How it works from 1 October

A system built from the ground up

iWaste’s business software was designed and built in-house to run our day-to-day operations and to give clients a cleaner, more reliable service. It already covers:

To meet the new DWT duty, we have integrated our own API into that same custom portal. Waste received at our sites is recorded in the system we already use and submitted automatically to Defra’s Digital Waste Tracking service.

That keeps control of data, process and customer service inside iWaste. There is no separate portal for our team to re-key information into, and no extra supplier between your collection and the official record.

What this means for clients

iWaste is an Approved Authorised Treatment Facility (AATF) specialising in WEEE, electrical waste recycling, IT asset disposition and certified data destruction. Compliance is already built into how we collect, process and evidence every load. Digital Waste Tracking is now part of that same system.