For skip hire operators
Nearly every skip you drop holds general waste, and that travels on a transfer note. Then a roof sheet of asbestos or a load of dodgy soil turns up, and the rule flips: now you need a consignment note. Consigns spots the difference and makes the right one for you.
New to the two notes? See the difference between a consignment note and a waste transfer note.
One question decides it. Walk the skip, then follow the branch.
Is there asbestos, contaminated soil, or anything else hazardous in the load?
Bricks, rubble, wood, mixed builders' waste, the everyday skip. It changes hands on a waste transfer note under the duty of care. Keep it for at least two years.
Consigns raises the transfer note, takes the signature, and files it.
Asbestos, contaminated soil, treated timber, anything starred in the waste list. This load needs a hazardous waste consignment note. The producer keeps it three years, the receiving site keeps it five.
Consigns flags it, swaps to the consignment note, and sends the receipt to DEFRA.
You should not have to remember which is which on a wet kerb. Pick the waste type once and Consigns serves the correct note. Not sure of the code? Look it up here.
These turn up in ordinary skips with no warning. Each one is hazardous by default, marked with a star in the waste list, so each one needs a consignment note, not a transfer note.
Asbestos is the big one. It can only go in a purpose-built, lockable asbestos skip, carried under an upper tier licence, on a note that names the site it is going to. The HSE and the Environment Agency both enforce this, and the fines are heavy.
17 06 05*Construction materials containing asbestos17 06 01*Insulation materials containing asbestos17 05 03*Soil and stones with hazardous substances17 02 04*Treated wood, glass and plastic with hazardsThe general skips carry on as they are. Consigns only changes the bit that carries the real risk.
Choose the waste type when the skip is booked or collected. Consigns knows straight away whether that is general or hazardous, and which note to build.
The driver captures the signature on a phone, on site. If there is no bar of signal it saves offline and syncs the moment the phone is back in range.
Every note files itself, searchable by customer, date or waste type. For the hazardous loads, the receipt goes to DEFRA digital waste tracking when it reaches the receiving site.
Your general skips stay on your usual transfer-note process. Consigns just makes the dangerous bit watertight, so the one load that could get you fined is the one load you do not have to worry about.
Consigns is waste-note software for UK operators. It does both notes off one job, with on-site signatures, automatic PDFs and safe storage, and it works alongside the rest of our hazardous waste software. Start with the hazardous jobs and get those watertight first.
Free for 14 days. No demo to sit through. Cancel any time before it renews.
Carry more than skips? See our software for hazardous waste carriers.