£5,000 fine per missing HWCN
Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005. If you can’t produce the note during an EA inspection, you have no defence.
Hazardous EWC codes flag automatically. Producer, carrier, and consignee all sign from their phones. Stored for the three years the regulations require.
Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005. If you can’t produce the note during an EA inspection, you have no defence.
Three years of retention, not two. Lose a carbon copy and you’re exposed for 12 extra months.
Every party has to sign. Chasing the consignee’s signature after the fact is how notes go missing.
Pick the customer. Assign a driver. EWC codes marked hazardous flag themselves.
Producer signs on the driver’s phone. Carrier signs. No carbon books.
Consignee signs at the receiving site, on the driver’s phone. No WTN App account needed for them.
Stored digitally the full statutory three years. Searchable when the EA asks.
In today: hazardous EWC flagging, HWCN/dangerous-goods field capture, manual consignment-code entry, three-party signatures, mixed WTN + HWCN loads auto-split into one chain, offline sign-and-share handoff, PDF, and three-year retention.
Next: expert-reviewed consignment-code generation and more guided HWCN completion checks. Manual entry stays available for standard, multiple-collection, summary, exempt, and rejected-load scenarios.
Use the free consignment note generator. No sign-up. Fills out a paper-equivalent PDF you can print.
Open the generatorHWCNs cover hazardous waste specifically. Three parties sign instead of two, retention runs three years instead of two, and there are extra fields for dangerous-goods details.
Yes. Producers of hazardous waste register with the Environment Agency for a premises code, which goes on every HWCN. WTN App captures premises and consignment-code details for HWCN workflows; the free generator can produce a paper-equivalent copy with your code on it.
They don’t need to. The driver captures the consignee’s signature on their phone at drop-off. An emailed sign link for async handover ships Q2 2026.
Yes. WTN App captures physical form, hazard codes, components and concentrations, UN number, proper shipping name, UN class, packing group, special handling instructions, and emergency information. It does not auto-classify dangerous goods from EWC alone.
Background on the regulations.
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