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Waste Disposal: Monitoring

Commons · Question 12912 · Tabled 24 Jun 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 1 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Manuela Perteghella

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Digital Waste Tracking system will be designed to identify the point at which waste becomes unaccounted for, leading to incidents of large-scale fly-tipping; and what safeguard

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 1 Jul 2026

Once fully implemented, the digital waste tracking service will require certain information about waste movements to be entered before the movement, followed by confirmation that a waste carrier has collected it and confirmation that it has been received ...