The Department believes its waste tracking project will provide significantly more data to understand how waste is recycled and to ensure waste exports are legal and meets its waste export requirements. At present, data on waste transfers are recorded by waste operators in disparate systems and in diverse and unconnected ways, sometimes on paper and without sharing beyond the two parties to a specific waste transaction. Large amounts of data are either not collected or not collated centrally ...

The Department believes its waste tracking project will provide significantly more data to understand how waste is recycled and to ensure waste exports are legal and meets its waste export requirements. At present, data on waste transfers are recorded by waste operators in disparate systems and in diverse and unconnected ways, sometimes on paper and without sharing beyond the two parties to a specific waste transaction. Large amounts of data are either not collected or not collated centrally anywhere.49 The Department told us the waste tracking project will track waste from start to finish digitally, making it harder for waste crime to occur. Type: conclusion | Number: 23 | Response status: accepted Government response: 6.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: April 2025 6.2 In 2024, the waste tracking service will be publicly available to users on a voluntary basis – this is expected to happen in phases with specific groups of users