The day the regulator asks for your evidence.
An information notice asks you to prove your tonnes were received. Open a typical evidence folder and count: the weighbridge tickets, the Annex VII, the packing list, the site’s letter — almost every page was written by you, or by someone paid by you. The few independent documents prove a container shipped. None of them prove a tonne arrived.
Evidence you wrote yourself is just your own word, filed neatly. TonneTrack’s record is written by every hand in the chain — including the ones that don’t answer to you.
Record every load, witnessed at every step.
One lorry-load, followed from weighbridge to far gate — each fact captured where it happened, by the party standing there.
Your Defra waste-tracking filings answer a different question — did you file? We answer did the tonne exist? Keep both.
PRN and PERN — the chain does not stop at the port.
UK reprocessing and export are the same problem with a different ending. TonneTrack follows one lorry-load through both — to a British reprocessor’s weighbridge, or through a sealed container, a customs record and a foreign gate.
For whoever has to answer for the tonne.
You sign the note. You defend it.
- Sent vs confirmed-arrived, per site — unconfirmed tonnes on their own line.
- Headroom on your accreditation band, before the container is packed.
- Which routes confirm and which go quiet — so the next load goes somewhere that answers.
You buy notes for hundreds of members.
- Which tonnes behind your book were confirmed at the far end — and which were only declared.
- A standard suppliers must meet, not a form they fill in about themselves.
- Show members which tonnes trace end to end — and which vanish into a pool.
For schemes & producers — today nothing gets cancelled.
Enforcement lands on the accredited operator who issued it — suspended accreditations, refused tonnage — almost never on the buyer. Your risk today is price and supply, not validity. A compliance scheme that carries no risk doesn’t need TonneTrack — yet.
That is changing. In 2025 the regulator disrupted 279,000 tonnes of suspect evidence, and Defra is consulting on cancelling notes issued on an illegitimate basis — putting the due diligence on the buyer. When that lands, the question becomes: which tonnes were confirmed at the far end, and which were only declared.
Do you stop fraud?
No — and be wary of anyone who says they do. We price it, record it and surface it. Two colluders can still agree a number between themselves. What they cannot agree with is a seal they never saw, a weighbridge they don’t own, and a photograph pinned to the spot it was taken.
Do you issue PRNs or PERNs?
Never. Evidence is issued by accredited operators. We record that they did, and the chain of custody behind it. Anything that presents itself as issuing evidence without accreditation should worry you.
Not Waste Tracking Software.
From October 2026, receiving sites must file waste movements with Defra, and good filing tools do that job well — keep one. They answer did you file? We answer did the tonne exist? Line by line:
Bring us one route.
We’ll run a single load end to end — your yard, your destination, your overseas site — and show you the record it makes. If it tells you nothing new, walk away.