Duty of care
Duty of care is a data trail. Not a document.
Under the Environmental Protection Act, buildings must be able to show what waste was produced, how it was classified, who handled it and where it went. Paper records answer that slowly and incompletely. A digital record answers it on demand.
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The trail, end to end.
Every disposal logged at source
Digitally, with weight, photo, tenant and timestamp.
EWC classification built in
All 29 pre-built streams carry their codes and disposal outcomes; custom streams are coded as they are created.
Chain of custody to collection
Contractor Mode records what left the building, when, and at what weight.
Certificates filed against the record
Transfer notes and certificates stored per company and building, next to the disposals they cover.
Always inspectable
Twelve months of evidence is an export, not a site visit.
INVOICE / LINE 7
The service charge line the tenant disputes
£3,221.42 waste recharge, one month
RECHARGE RUN
The allocation behind it
22.4% of building waste by verified weight, five cost components
STREAM TOTALS
The weights behind the share
1,554.4 kg across 6 streams, net of bin tare weights
RECORD 908417
One weighing among them
8.25 kg Coffee Grounds · 16 Aug, 17:00 · EWC 20 01 08
EVIDENCE
The photograph
the bags on the scale, the moment they were weighed
Five steps down, and the last one is a photograph. That is what dispute-proof means.
Questions
Duty of care, answered
- What is the waste duty of care?
- Under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, every business that produces waste must take reasonable steps to ensure it is handled and transferred properly, and must keep records that prove it. The duty cannot be delegated to a contractor.
- How does Wastify AI support duty of care evidence?
- The platform holds a dated, weighed, photographed record of every transfer of waste out of the building, mapped to EWC codes. When an auditor or regulator asks what left the site and where it went, the answer is a report, not a search through emails.
- Are contractor waste reports enough on their own?
- Contractor reports describe what the contractor says it collected, often estimated from bin counts. An independent record weighed at source is stronger evidence, and it is also what lets you check the contractor report and the invoice behind it.
When the request comes, the answer should be an export.
See the evidence trail on a live building.