Xworks™ For Waste Operators
For collectors · processors · traders · brokers

The rules
for moving waste
just changed.

Two regulations. Two dates in 2026.
Paper-based, self-declared chains will not satisfy what comes next.

What changed
01 / 08
Confirmed dates — not proposals

Two deadlines.
Both this year.

Both are law. Both have hard application dates. Both require verifiable, structured data — not paper declarations.

21 May
2026
EU Waste Shipment Regulation — full digitalisation
All cross-border waste shipment procedures move to DIWASS, the EU's central digital system. Paper Annex VII forms replaced. Every notification must be submitted electronically with structured data.
Reg. (EU) 2024/1157, Art.27 — eur-lex.europa.eu
Now
Oct
2026
UK Digital Waste Tracking — mandatory for receiving sites
DWT mandatory for waste receiving sites in England, Wales, Northern Ireland. Paper waste transfer notes replaced. Scotland: January 2027.
GOV.UK DWT policy paper, Feb 2026 — gov.uk
5 months
Why DWT isn't enough
02 / 08
The question we hear every week

"We're on DWT.
That's enough."

"It's digital now. Job done."

What DWT does
📋
Records that a movement occurredTakes what you enter. Timestamps it. Does not cross-check anything.
✏️
Your numbers — self-reportedDWT does not validate declared weights against weighbridge records, or permits against the EA live register.
🏛️
Satisfies the notification requirementThe regulator knows it moved. They do not know if what moved matched what was declared.
What Xworks adds
⚖️
Verifies what was declaredWeight tickets extracted, cross-referenced against weighbridge records. Mass balance reconciled node to node.
🔗
Makes DWT defensible under auditWhen a regulator or buyer audits the DWT record, Xworks is the evidence layer behind it.
🏢
What your buyer actually needsCorporate buyers under CSRD need audit-grade supply chain evidence — not a DWT notification number.
DWT records that you moved it. Xworks verifies what you moved was what you declared.
Export access
03 / 08
Urgency 01 — Export access

Cross-border shipments
require verifiable
structured data.

From 21 May 2026, all EU cross-border waste shipment procedures move to DIWASS. Paper forms are replaced. Every notification must be submitted electronically with structured, machine-readable data fields. Self-declared paper chains will not clear this process.

EU WSR digitalisation
21 May
'26
All cross-border waste shipment notifications move to DIWASS. No paper alternative for notifiable waste from this date.
Reg. (EU) 2024/1157, Art.27
Document retention — EU WSR
5 yrs
All shipment information and documents must be retained for a minimum of five years from shipment completion.
Reg. (EU) 2024/1157, Art.20

A supply chain that cannot produce structured, traceable, machine-readable documentation for every shipment will face friction at the point of notification — delays, rejected submissions, blocked exports. The requirement is not to prove you did nothing wrong. It is to prove, in a format the system accepts, exactly what moved.

Operational risk
04 / 08
The evidence layer

This is what
Xworks reads.

Real documents from a verified chain. Every field extracted, cross-referenced, and validated. These are not illustrations.

Weighbridge Ticket · LDPE Folie 80/20 Extracted
Redacted weighbridge ticket
Product LDPE Folie 80/20 0.97
Net weight 21,840 KG 0.99
1st weighing 16,520 KG · 07:57 0.98
2nd weighing 38,360 KG · 08:29 0.98
EWC code Extracting… 0.71
CMR · NL → TR · 46 bales Matched
Redacted CMR document
Route NL → TR (Aksaray) 0.96
Bales declared 46 0.99
Container BSIU9701863 0.95
Annex VII · EU WSR Verified
Redacted Annex VII
Basel code B3011 0.99
Recovery op R3 0.99
EWC code 150102 0.97
Registry cross-reference
Weighbridge cert ✓ NMi Certified · WB18/0016
Capacity ✓ 70,000 kg · Precia Molen
Mass balance ✓ 21,840 kg reconciled
CMR ↔ Annex VII ✓ Container matched
What this chain produced: Four documents, automatically extracted, cross-referenced against the weighbridge registry and reconciled node to node. Net weight confirmed. Basel code verified. Container matched across CMR and Annex VII. This is the evidence layer DWT does not provide.
Competitive displacement
Urgency 02 — Operational risk

The chain breaks
before you know
it broke.

Manual, paper-based systems introduce reconciliation risk and lack audit traceability. A weight discrepancy. A permit that lapsed. A transfer document that doesn't reconcile with the receiving site. Under a digital audit regime, an unresolved gap is an unresolved gap.

Without Xworks
📄
Permit expiry goes unnoticedA facility permit lapses. The EA live register shows it. Your documentation trail shows movements under an expired permit.
⚖️
Weight reconciliation gapsDeclared intake doesn't reconcile with declared output. In a paper chain this may not surface until an audit — by which point the burden of explanation falls on you.
📦
No mass balance traceabilityWithout node-to-node reconciliation, you cannot demonstrate to a regulator or buyer that declared volumes are consistent.
Xworks catches it first
🔔
Permit expiry flagged proactivelyFacility permits cross-referenced against the EA live register. You know before the EA does.
✓
Weight reconciliation at intakeWeight tickets extracted and compared to weighbridge records at the point of intake. Discrepancies flagged immediately.
🔗
Node-to-node mass balanceVolume consistency checked at every handoff. Any significant deviation triggers a flag before the chain advances.
Competitive displacement
05 / 08
Urgency 03 — Competitive displacement

The recycler
down the road
gets verified.

"Our buyers haven't mentioned any of this.
We'd know if it was urgent."

Corporate buyers under CSRD Scope 3 reporting are reviewing supplier lists against that requirement now. The question is not whether they will ask — it is which of their suppliers will be ready.

CSRD
Wave 1
Large EU companies filing first Scope 3 disclosures now
Their assurance providers are tracing evidence back through supply chains. That trail ends at their recyclers. The suppliers already verified get confirmed. The ones who aren't get a note.
CSRD Directive (EU) 2022/2464 — ESRS E1
Active now
HMRC
2026
Government consultation on mandatory certification for recycled plastic — 2026
Direction of travel confirmed: toward verified evidence, not self-declaration.
HMRC / Baker McKenzie, October 2024
Watch
Contract risk
06 / 08
Urgency 04 — Contract risk

Your buyer
gets audited.
You get the call.

A buyer under CSRD audit does not give their suppliers advance notice of what the assurance provider will request. When the evidence request comes back through the chain and cannot be satisfied, they don't wait. They find a supplier whose chain already produces verifiable evidence.

Warning you get
None
Audit evidence requests travel on the buyer's timeline. Preparation after the request arrives is too late.
What they need from you
Audit
grade
Not a weight ticket. Not a DWT number. A verified, traceable chain of custody their assurance provider can sign off.
Commercial position
First
mover
The supplier already verified gets confirmed. The one who isn't gets reviewed. Being ready before the ask is a commercial advantage.

ISO 14064-5 requires independent third-party validation of emission reduction claims. Self-assessment is not permitted under that standard. Your buyer's assurance provider needs a VVB name — not your internal system. Control Union is that name.

ISO 14064-5 — Third-party validation and verification of greenhouse gas statements
Your questions
07 / 08
Things people say

What's in your
head right now.

Your records capture what you declared. ISO 14064-5 requires independent third-party verification — self-assessment is not permitted under the standard your buyers' assurance providers apply. Control Union, an ISO-accredited VVB, is the independent validation layer Xworks provides. That is the name an assurance provider recognises — not your internal system.

Your records capture it. Control Union verifies it.
ISO 14064-5 · Third-party validation and verification

DWT satisfies the movement notification requirement. It does not satisfy the evidence standard for Scope 3 supply chain disclosure, for PPT recycled content claims under HMRC audit, or for EU WSR chain-of-custody requirements. These are different obligations, enforced by different bodies, requiring different standards of evidence. A DWT record tells a regulator you moved the material. It does not tell a buyer's auditor what the material was, where it came from, or whether declared volumes are consistent across the chain.

DWT: notification. Xworks: verification. Both are now required.

CSRD Wave 1 companies are submitting their first Scope 3 disclosures now. Their assurance providers are reviewing the evidence behind those disclosures — that review travels back through supply chains. The buyer does not brief their suppliers before this happens. The HMRC consultation on mandatory certification for mechanically recycled plastic is scheduled for 2026. The direction of travel across both UK and EU frameworks is toward verified evidence, not self-declaration.

They haven't asked yet. The framework is already moving.

Xworks is verification infrastructure — not a record-keeping system. It cross-references your existing documents against external registries: weighbridge calibration records, EA facility permit register, Companies House, national vehicle registries. It reconciles mass balance across nodes. It produces a tamper-evident, auditable evidence chain independently validated by Control Union. What you already do produces a record. Xworks produces a verified record — one that satisfies the evidence standard a regulator, buyer auditor, or VVB expects to see.

You produce records. Xworks makes them verifiable.
Get started
08 / 08
The position you want to be in
Verified before
the ask arrives.

The regulations are in force. The deadlines are fixed. The buyers are reviewing.
The supplier already verified has nothing to scramble for.

EU WSR — 21 May '26
UK DWT receiving sites — Oct '26
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All regulatory dates sourced from EUR-Lex, GOV.UK and European Commission official publications.
Correct as of May 2026 · hello@xworks.systems · xworks.systems
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