Home › Waste Duty of Care Pack
If your business produces or carries waste from jobs — rubble, offcuts, packaging, strip-out, green waste — the duty of care under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 applies to you. Every transfer needs a waste transfer note (WTN), kept for two years, and most building trades also need waste carrier registration. This pack gives you the whole system: a plain-English guide, a professional WTN template, a season-ticket version for repeat collections, the EWC waste codes trades actually use, a transfer register, and a completed example to copy from.
Any UK trade that carries waste away from jobs — builders, roofers, landscapers, electricians, plumbers, house clearance and more — and anyone who has been asked for a waste transfer note or proof of duty of care.
Built to HSE structure and current UK law, in plain English — the best available and most compliant, for any trade.
A WTN is the legal record that must be completed every time business waste changes hands — describing the waste, its EWC code, both parties and the transfer. Both sides keep a copy for two years.
Yes — if your work produces waste and you carry it away or hand it to someone else, the duty of care applies, even for a single bag of offcuts. Householders are exempt for their own waste; trades working in their homes are not.
If you carry waste as part of your business, yes. Carrying your own construction or demolition waste needs upper-tier registration — the one that catches most building trades out. The pack explains both tiers and how to register.
No — hazardous waste (asbestos, oils, solvents and similar) moves on consignment notes with extra duties. This pack covers non-hazardous business waste, and tells you clearly where the line is.
Yes — the guide explains the UK’s move to digital waste tracking from October 2026, and the pack’s records are exactly what transfers cleanly into the digital regime.