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Written question asked by Neil Duncan-Jordan (Labour) on Tuesday, 14 July 2026, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 16 July 2026. It was answered by Mary Creagh (Labour) on Wednesday, 22 July 2026 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Waste Disposal: Monitoring

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how the Digital Waste Tracking service will help to reduce fly tipping.

Answer

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 at a waste receiving site.


If these confirmations are not provided, then this will highlight to regulators that this waste may have been ‘lost’ and potentially mismanaged. They can then act accordingly to investigate this.


This transparency and near real time data will reduce the opportunities for organised waste criminals to operate; making it much harder to commit waste crime such as fly-tipping.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
18940
Session
2026-27
Subjects
Digital technology Fly-tipping Monitoring Waste disposal
Link
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