Every load is now a record. Model what it could become.
Since 1 October 2026, permitted and licensed sites in England and Wales report every load of waste they receive to Defra's digital waste tracking service. Tareline brings those records together with transfer notes, invoices and contracts, and its engine simulates the changes that cut costs, earn income and keep waste out of landfill.
Receivers share weighed receipts with the carriers who delivered; carriers share them with the customers whose waste it was. Each step is a grant you control. Producers finally see collection, weighbridge and treatment for every load, without chasing anyone.
Tareline collects your waste records from every source, maps them to one schema, and runs them through the Tareline engine, a simulation API with its rules written as data.
Collect
Upload transfer notes, consignment notes, weighbridge tickets and invoices, or export the tracking records your receivers and their software already hold. Each supplier's format maps to one schema, keyed on EWC code, weight and R/D code.
Model
Records become flows: sites, streams, carriers and receivers, with gate fees, haulage, landfill tax, packaging fees and carbon. A new tax rate or contract price is a change to one number.
Simulate
Run scenarios side by side: separate food waste, bale card, plan rounds, switch receivers, add a line, redesign packaging. AI agents can search thousands of combinations and report the best.
Decide
Compare cost, income, tonnes landfilled and the hierarchy split for each option, then track the real result against the plan as new records arrive.
Where Tareline fits
Plenty of software already moves waste and reports on it. Very little helps an organisation decide what to change next.
Operator software
Weighbridge, routing and waste ERP systems run the day: tickets, rounds, invoices and now reporting to Defra. Tareline reads what they record; it doesn't replace them.
Reporting portals
Contractors' portals and ESG dashboards show what happened last month. Tareline starts from the same records and asks what happens if you change something.
Modelling tools
Life-cycle and strategy models are built for experts and consultants, often a project at a time. Tareline is self-serve, runs on your own records, and opens to software and AI agents through an API.
Report onceIn the path of your submissions
Send us the same feed you send to Defra, and Tareline checks every record before the deadline, flags what's wrong, and updates the simulations you have running. No second upload. Submitting to Defra through Tareline follows when our software-provider integration completes. How it works
One engine, every scale
The same engine already runs a public city game built on the World Bank's What a Waste 3.0 data. A company's waste is the next scale up from a household, using the same model.
ModelHousehold
How residents choose to sort, burn, dump or pay, from synthetic households.
In the demoSite and company
Streams, contracts, receivers and costs across many sites and suppliers.
In the demoCarrier and receiver
Rounds, loads and vehicle miles; inbound tonnes, capacity and gate fees.
PlannedSupply chain
Shared receivers, take-back loops and by-product exchanges between firms.
The Tareline engine has an MCP server, so an AI agent can read a scenario, play it forward and try thousands of plans. The same engine runs WasteTown, our public city game, where players and AI agents test policies on real cities; a search there found plans that tuning by hand had missed. For a business, that means asking for the cheapest way to halve landfill by 2028 and getting a plan back with its costs.
# a sketch: today the MCP tools play cities;
# the same calls on the demo companybriefing northfold-foods
try separate-food + bale-card
→ net cost −£496k a year
→ landfill −2,000 t
try + residual-to-energy
→ landfill tax £0
search all 128 combinations
→ cheapest: six changes, −£1.09m
→ skip animal feed: the processor
is too far from the bakery
Know where every tonne goes, and what it could earn
Your waste leaves through several contractors, on paper and invoices in different formats. Your legal duty of care follows it all the way. Tareline puts it on one map, priced, so you can test changes before you commit.
What you get
Every site, stream and supplier in one schema, by EWC code and recovery or disposal route.
Costs that include gate fees, haulage, landfill tax and packaging fees, site by site.
Scenarios for food separation, baling, by-products, pallet reuse, energy recovery and packaging redesign.
Scope 3 Category 5, waste generated in operations, from tonnes by type and route instead of averages.
Evidence for duty of care and the waste hierarchy: carriers, receivers and codes for every load.
What's changing for you
No date has been published for producers to report to digital waste tracking. Your receivers report now, and your carriers will from October 2027.
Workplaces in England separate dry recyclables, food and residual waste. Micro-firms must by 31 March 2027.
Packaging EPR fees are modulated by recyclability: red-rated packaging pays 1.2× in 2026–27, rising to 2.0× by 2028–29.
The deposit return scheme for bottles and cans starts on 1 October 2027.
Every load a record from October 2027. Make each one count.
Phase 2 of digital waste tracking brings in the companies that collect and move waste. Tareline lets you rehearse with your own movements, then use the same records to plan rounds, cut empty running and pick receivers on cost.
What you get
Loads, vehicle miles and margin by customer, round and receiver.
Scenarios for planned rounds, backhauls, return loads and higher-capacity vehicles.
Receiver choice on gate fee plus distance, not habit.
A record count and completeness check ahead of mandatory reporting.
Customer reports showing where each load went and what it cost.
The timetable
Private beta for carriers, brokers and dealers from autumn 2026.
Public beta from spring 2027.
Mandatory from October 2027.
Until further notice, waste transfer notes and consignment notes are still required alongside the service.
You report every load now. Put those records to work.
Since 1 October 2026, permitted and licensed receiving sites in England and Wales report every load within two working days. Those records are the best picture of your inputs you've ever had. Tareline turns them into a model of your site.
What you get
Inbound tonnes by EWC code, customer and carrier, against permitted capacity.
Gate-fee income and rejected loads, by customer.
Scenarios for pricing, contamination checks, new lines and new contracts.
Evidence for customers' duty of care and waste hierarchy reporting.
The rules you're working to
Report each load within two working days of receipt. Errors the service flags are fixed in the same window.
£26 a year per organisation, first due 31 January 2027.
Scotland and Northern Ireland follow from January 2027.
Permit returns and hazardous waste consignee returns are still required until further notice.
The four UK governments are bringing in digital waste tracking to tackle waste crime and close what they call "the information gap" in how waste is managed. Each record carries the List of Waste (EWC) code, the weight and whether it was estimated, the recovery or disposal code, the carrier and, where they apply, hazardous properties and POPs.
Voluntary use opens
Receiving sites start reporting through the service.
LIVEReceivers in England and Wales
Every permitted or licensed receiving site reports every load within two working days.
Scotland and Northern Ireland
Receivers there follow. Each organisation pays £26 a year, first due 31 January 2027.
Carriers, brokers and dealers
Phase 2 brings in the companies that collect and move waste.
Waste producers
No date has been published for producers who neither receive nor carry waste.
Report onceUse the same records twice
The service takes your records in; it doesn't send them back. So keep a copy where it can work for you: Tareline takes the same feed in parallel, checks it before the two-day deadline and turns it into a live model of your site. See the checks
Does digital tracking replace waste transfer notes?
Not yet. Until further notice, transfer notes, Annex VII forms, hazardous waste consignment notes and returns are still required alongside the service. That is one reason to bring every record into one place.
Do producers have to report?
No date has been published for waste producers who neither receive nor carry waste.
How is data sent to the service?
Through software connected to Defra's Receipt of Waste API, or Defra's template spreadsheet, which is expected to stay until at least October 2027. Software providers pass production approval tests before going live.
What are the penalties?
Regulators can issue compliance notices, a £1,000 fixed penalty, variable penalties with no upper limit, or prosecute. Knowingly false records can lead to up to two years in prison.
Choose a seat in the chain. The same loads look different from each one.
1 Plan the changes
Each row is a change. Click a year to start it then; click its first year again to drop it. The figure on the right is what it's worth on its own over five years, after what it costs.
Northfold FoodsLine width is tonnes a year. Projection: transverse Mercator, as the OS National Grid. Hover a site or a receiver.
ReuseRecyclingRecoveryDisposal
2026
Chain of custody
Your waste, end to end, shared by consent
The records that prove where waste went are split across companies: the carrier knows what it collected, the receiver knows what it weighed and how it was treated, and the producer, who carries the duty of care, sees neither. Tareline passes the records along the chain, one permission at a time.
Receivers share with carriers
Every receipt already names the carrier's registration. A receiver can let each carrier see the weighed receipts of the loads it delivered, and nothing else.
Carriers share with customers
The carrier matches receipts to its collections by transfer note reference, then lets each customer see its own loads. Onward sharing happens only where the receiver allows it.
Producers see the chain
Collected, weighed at the gate, treated: each load end to end, with the collection estimate reconciled against the weighbridge. Evidence for duty of care that no single company holds.
Permissions fictional companies
October 2026 to September 2027: watch the chain fill in as companies join and grant access.
What Northfold sees
What each company learns from the shared records
Each company holds one part of the record. Shared, the parts answer questions none of them could answer alone. Change the permissions above to see what each company gains or loses.
Seen: this part of the load's record is shared with them
Not shared with them
Treatment known
Each line is one of the loads above, from where it was collected (left) to where it was treated. The collection leg is the carrier's record; the delivery leg and treatment are the receiver's. Pick a company above to see the chain as they do.
Where each material ends up
Each material followed one step past the site that took it: sorting plants send it on to reprocessors, digestion makes biogas and digestate, energy-from-waste leaves ash. The onward shares are typical examples, not measured. Pale parts are known only from transfer notes.
Where all of Northfold's waste goes, and what happens to it
Every tonne from Northfold's six sites and 42 stores: what it is, which site took it, and what became of it there. Worked out by the Tareline engine from the network demo. Solid flows are evidenced by weighbridge receipts shared along the chain; pale flows are only what the transfer notes say.
Controls
Grants are scoped: whose loads, which sites, which codes, which fields, from and until when.
Onward sharing needs the originator's consent; prices and commercial terms stay private.
Every grant can be revoked, and every view is logged in an audit trail each party can read.
Records are matched, not merged: each company keeps its own system of record.
Waste costs are set by policy as much as by contracts. These are the published figures the engine starts from, each checked against its source on 1 October 2026.
Cost driver
Figure
What it means
Source
Landfill tax, standard rate
£130.75/t
From 1 April 2026 (£126.15 in 2025–26). The lower rate for inert waste is £8.65/t. Scotland and Wales match the 2026–27 rates.
Fees are modulated by recyclability from 2026–27. Red-rated packaging pays 1.2× in Year 2, rising to 1.6× and then 2.0× by 2028–29. Large producers (over £2m turnover and 50 tonnes) pay.
WRAP 2025/26: AD £13, net MRF £42, landfill £34 before tax, energy from waste £129 for residual waste. These are local-authority fees, not commercial prices.
Start with files today. Plug in your systems when you're ready.
You don't need an integration project to find out whether simulation is worth it. Start stand-alone with the files you already have, then connect your systems once you're using it. Your existing systems stay the record; Tareline reads from them and never writes back.
Your compliance data is a by-product
Reuse it
Every receiving site now creates a structured record for each load it takes: EWC code, weight, whether it was weighed or estimated, recovery or disposal code, carrier. That record exists to satisfy the regulator. It is also the best raw material a waste model has ever had. The reporting is the cost; the record is the by-product. We turn it into feedstock for decisions.
Load arrivesWeighed at the gate
Record madeFor Defra, within two working days
Same record, reusedExported or shared with you
Model and decideCosts, routes and scenarios
Pilot
Stand-alone: upload files
Defra's template spreadsheet for reporting receipts of waste, as receivers already fill it in: the movements sheet and the items sheet, joined on each load's unique reference.
CSV or Excel exports from any weighbridge, waste or finance system.
Waste transfer notes, consignment notes and invoices, read and mapped to one schema.
Contractors' monthly reports, in whatever format they send.
Producers: ask your receivers for the references and records of your loads. Defra's guidance expects receivers to share them with customers.
No IT project, no access to your systems. Most organisations can see their network in an afternoon.
Planned
Connectors to your systems
Scheduled exports or APIs from weighbridge software and waste management systems.
Finance and procurement systems, for invoices and contract prices.
Contractors' customer portals, where they offer exports.
We'll build connectors in the order pilot customers need them. Tell us which systems you use.
Pilot
In the path of your submissions
Send us the same feed you send to Defra, from your software or Defra's spreadsheet. Nothing is loaded twice.
Every record is checked before the two-working-day deadline, and problems are flagged while there's time to fix them.
Each record updates your models as it lands.
Submitting to Defra through us: our software-provider integration is in progress.
Checked before the deadline
Every record, pre-flighted
The service flags some errors after you submit, and you have two working days to put them right. We look first, against the code lists, the public registers and your own history, and tell you what will cost you money as well as what's wrong.
EWC codes that exist, and hazardous codes that carry their HP codes.
Carriers on the public register; receivers permitted for the waste they took.
Weights that look wrong for the container or the customer, and weights that were estimated.
Missing references, and loads close to the deadline.
One schema for every source
Whatever arrives is mapped to the fields the tracking service uses, so a supplier's spreadsheet and a receiver's record line up.
Your records, with the country's waste data around them
Your own records say where your waste went. Public datasets say what else is out there: which sites take your streams, what they charge, how far away they are, and what the carbon is. Layered together, they turn a list of loads into a model of your options.
City-scale waste data worldwide; it already drives the WasteTown city game
CC BY 4.0
In use
Licences as published by each source when checked on 2 October 2026. Where a licence limits reuse, we use the data inside the model under its terms and don't republish it.
Rebuild the picture Defra is building, with the people who made it
Defra now receives a record of every load taken at a permitted site. It hasn't committed to publishing that data, and in its 2022 consultation, wider public access drew the least support, mostly over commercial confidentiality. The organisations creating those records could pool them, safely, and see the market as it moves.
What contributors see
Your cost per tonne, by stream and region, against the range for organisations like you.
Recycling and recovery rates for your sector, from weighed loads rather than surveys.
Where waste like yours goes: the routes others use and what they pay, as medians and bands.
Calibrated inputs for your own simulations, so scenarios start from the market as it is.
Why organisations contribute
Give to get. Benchmarks are only for contributors. WRAP's Courtauld Commitment works the same way.
No extra work. Records already in the tracking service's format contribute with one switch.
End-fate visibility. In Defra's consultation, 73% agreed that producers should see where their waste ends up.
It costs you nothing extra. Contributing never raises your price, and uploads are free at every tier.
Can the numbers be trusted?
Every figure the network publishes shows where it came from, so you can judge it.
Weighed, not estimated
The tracking record says whether each weight was measured. We show the share of weighed tonnes behind every figure.
Checked against registers
Carrier registrations and site permits are checked against the regulators' public registers.
Matched across the chain
When a producer's transfer note and a receiver's record describe the same load, it counts as reconciled.
Coverage shown
How many organisations contributed, and what share of the area's known tonnage they cover.
Safe by design
Nothing is published from fewer than five organisations, and no single contributor can dominate a figure.
Locations no finer than local authority; EWC codes grouped where data is thin.
Prices only as historic medians and bands, never current or forward-looking, following the CMA's guidance on sharing information between competitors.
Members see their own data and the aggregates, never anyone else's records.
Run in the open
Pooled data held by an independent steward, separate from our commercial team.
A contributor steering group, a published method and an independent check of the disclosure rules.
Open to any organisation in the waste chain, on the same terms.
Waste is a feedstock with a price. Find the margin.
Every tonne sits somewhere on a ladder: from a cost you pay to get rid of it, to a material someone pays you for. Moving up the ladder is the commercial case for the circular economy. Distance, quality and contracts decide whether a move pays.
Before haulage. Landfill is WRAP's 2025/26 local-authority median gate fee (£34) plus the £130.75 standard rate of landfill tax. Energy from waste, MRF and AD are WRAP 2025/26 local-authority medians. Pallet repair, animal feed and baled card (marked * on small screens) are illustrative assumptions; material prices move with the market.
Is it worth it?
Test a move up the ladder for one stream over five years. Haulage starts at an illustrative £0.80 per tonne-mile and follows diesel; landfill tax rises from the April 2026 rate. Worked out by the Tareline engine.
Where the money is
Avoided disposal. Landfill costs £34 at the gate plus £130.75 tax a tonne. Every tonne moved off it saves the tax before anything else.
Material revenue. Clean, separated, baled material sells. Mixed material costs money to sort.
By-products. Material that meets the legal tests for a by-product or end-of-waste leaves the waste regime and can be sold as a product.
Recycled content. Plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled plastic pays Plastic Packaging Tax at £228.82 a tonne. Recycled feedstock has a value to the packaging maker as well as the recycler.
Packaging fees. pEPR fees for red-rated packaging rise from 1.2× to 2.0× by 2028–29, so recyclable design pays more each year.
For producers
Find the streams worth separating, the buyers worth the distance, and the packaging changes that cut fees.
For processors
See where the feedstock you need is produced, in what volume and quality, and what it costs to bring in.
For both
We price the options; you deal where you like. Marketplaces match buyers and sellers. Tareline tells you which deals are worth doing.
The model gets better with every record, so we never charge by tonnes, records, uploads or file size. You pay for what you do with it: scenarios, people, connections and support.
Free
Stand-alone
£0
Unlimited uploads, every site
Your network on a map, with baseline costs
Three saved scenarios
Benchmarks from the insights network when you contribute
Subscription
Team
Per organisation
Priced by sites and seats, never by tonnes or records.
Unlimited scenarios and comparisons
Policy timelines: tax and fee changes year by year
Carrier and receiver views, customer reports
Exports for finance, ESG and Scope 3 reporting
Subscription
Enterprise
Per organisation
Connectors to your systems
Tareline API and MCP access for your own tools and AI agents
Your own prices, contracts and rules
Single sign-on and support
Why not charge by volume?
Charging by tonnes or records would make the most complete data the most expensive, and push you to leave things out. A model with gaps gives worse answers. So uploads stay free at every tier, and the insights network gives contributors more, not less.
During the pilot
Pilot organisations use the full product free, in return for feedback and, if they choose, contributing anonymised data to the insights network. Prices will be set with pilot customers.
Tareline builds simulation and tracking for the waste chain
At the weighbridge, the tare is the empty weight taken off so that only the load is counted. We start from the same idea: an accurate baseline for every tonne, then honest numbers about what could change.
Simulation first
We help organisations decide what to do with their waste. Reporting is for the regulator's service; modelling the options is what we do.
Every figure sourced
Policy figures link to their source and show the date they were checked. Assumptions are labelled as assumptions.
Rules as data
The engine's rules, prices and factors are data, so a change in policy is a change to a number, visible to anyone reviewing the model.
Can I submit to Defra through Tareline?
Not yet: our software-provider integration is in progress. Until then, keep submitting as you do now and send us the same feed in parallel. You get the checks and the live model straight away.
Where do the demo's numbers come from?
Landfill tax is the published 2026–27 rate. Gate fees are WRAP's 2025/26 medians for local authorities. Packaging fees use Defra's Year 2 illustrative pEPR fees for plastic. Haulage, vehicle running costs, card and feed prices, carbon factors and the companies are made up for the demo. A real model uses your contracts and, for carbon, the UK government's 2026 conversion factors for waste disposal.
What data do you need to start?
Whatever you have: a year of transfer notes, invoices or weighbridge records, a list of sites and the streams each produces. Records with EWC codes and weights go furthest; we map the rest.
Pilot programme
Model your own waste
We're looking for a small number of producers, carriers and receivers to pilot Tareline on a year of their own data, starting with organisations in England.
We'll use your details only to reply to you. Or write to Garry Williams, Codebase, Edinburgh.