Digital Waste Tracking for vehicle breakers
Vehicle in.
Legal in seconds.
Parts out, sold on eBay.
On the official GOV.UK provider list Defra's published list of Report receipt of waste software providers ↗ From 1 October 2026, every vehicle a permitted yard takes in must be reported digitally to Defra. BreakerHQ is built for independent ATFs: reg in at the gate, one tap to report, works with no signal.
£39£0 a month until October for compliance, then £39 from the day the law starts. Every user included, no per-seat charges. Plans with eBay listing from £69, same offer.
Digital waste tracking becomes mandatory on 1 October 2026
There are more than 60 waste trackers on the GOV.UK list. One is built for breakers.
| BreakerHQ | Generic trackers | |
|---|---|---|
| Reports waste receipts to Defra digitally | Yes | Yes |
| One-tap DVLA lookup: reg in, record filled | Yes | No |
| Unlimited users, no per-seat charges | Yes | Per user or per driver |
| Works fully offline at the gate | Yes | Rarely |
| CoD recorded, DVLA told, depollution tracked | Yes | No |
| Electric vehicles: EV checklist, high-voltage battery on the record | Yes | No |
| Evidence pack for the whole vehicle, one tap | Yes | No |
| Sell the parts on your own eBay | Yes | No |
We checked all 63 providers on the GOV.UK list, one by one, and published what each one charges and does. See the full comparison
Compliance
£39£0 a month until October
Then £39 a month from 1 October · unlimited users · cancel any time
- Book in at the gate in 30 seconds. Reg in, one tap checks DVLA and fills the record.
- Waste codes handled. Coded hazardous on arrival, reclassified when depollution is done. CoD recorded, DVLA told.
- One tap reports to Defra. No signal? It queues on the tablet and sends itself.
- Expected before it arrives. Pre-book the reg and who is bringing it. One tap at the gate finishes the record when it lands.
- The site register your permit expects. What is on site right now, where each car sits, and the 14 working day quarantine clock counting down. Saved as a dated PDF in one tap.
- Ready for an inspection. Every send and every Defra answer kept against the vehicle. Evidence pack in one tap.
Add eBay parts
£69£0 a month until October
Then £69 a month from 1 October · your own seller account · cancel any time
- The booked-in car becomes listings. Tap the parts you are breaking and they list on your own eBay. Sales and payouts are yours.
- Buyers see "fits your vehicle". eBay's fitment catalogue, matched from the donor reg.
- Photos and part numbers without retyping. Gate photos join the listing and the AI reads OE numbers off the label.
- Sold at the counter? One tap ends it. A part never sells twice.
2013 FORD FIESTA GEARBOX, GENUINE USED PART
Calculate savings
Listing a used part by hand takes 10 to 15 minutes. From a booked-in car it takes about a minute.
Every step, one flow
- Car arrives
- Reg in
- DVLA identifies it
- Weight recorded
- Who delivered it
- Waste receipt created
- Sent to Defra
- Record kept
- Depollution ticked off
- Location set, quarantine clock if it needs one
Say BreakerHQ saves you just two minutes a car across all of that. A yard doing 120 cars a week gets four hours a week back, around seventeen hours a month, for £39, on top of being legally compliant.
Lower volume? Manual, fragmented processes usually cost far more than two minutes a car. Save eight minutes on each of thirty cars a week and the same maths lands in the same place: sixteen plus hours a month.
Get set up before OctoberThe dates that matter
| 1 October 2026 | Digital reporting of waste receipts becomes mandatory for permitted sites in England and Wales, including ATF vehicle intake. |
|---|---|
| January 2027 | Northern Ireland and Scotland follow. |
| October 2027 | Phase 2 extends reporting to waste carriers and brokers. |
If your yard receives end-of-life vehicles under an environmental permit, this applies to you from day one. The receiving site reports, whoever delivers.
Common questions
Is BreakerHQ on the official GOV.UK list of software providers?
Yes. BreakerHQ, from 1Z Digital Ltd, is listed on GOV.UK as a software provider for Report receipt of waste, Defra's Digital Waste Tracking service, and passed Defra's production approval tests. See the list on GOV.UK ↗
What is Digital Waste Tracking and when does it become mandatory?
Digital Waste Tracking is Defra's system for reporting waste movements digitally. From 1 October 2026 every waste receipt at a permitted site in England and Wales must be reported digitally, including vehicles arriving at ATFs. Northern Ireland and Scotland follow in January 2027. Read Defra's official guidance on GOV.UK ↗
Do scrap yards and vehicle dismantlers have to report to Defra?
Yes. If your yard receives end-of-life vehicles under an environmental permit, the receiving site must report each waste receipt from 1 October 2026, whoever delivers the vehicle. BreakerHQ does this from the gate in about thirty seconds per vehicle.
Do I need to know EWC waste codes?
No. BreakerHQ codes the waste automatically: an arriving end-of-life vehicle is
16 01 04* (hazardous) and completing depollution reclassifies it to
16 01 06 (non-hazardous), with the change recorded on the evidence
trail.
Does it work without signal in the yard?
Yes. BreakerHQ is offline-first: book-ins and reports queue on the tablet and send themselves when signal returns. Nothing gets lost and nothing gets typed twice.
How much does BreakerHQ cost?
Rolling monthly plans from £39 a month for Defra compliance. Plans that include posting parts to your own eBay account start at £69 a month. Cancel any time. Set up before October and you pay nothing until the law starts, with the first bill on 1 October 2026.
Can I use Defra's spreadsheet instead of software?
You can for now. Defra's fallback is a fixed template you download fresh for every submission, fill by hand with around twenty fields per load, and upload with a Government Gateway sign-in. Defra calls it temporary and expects to withdraw it, and the service charges £26 a year either way. Software fills those fields from the reg at the gate instead. Read Defra's guidance on GOV.UK ↗
We take in tyres, not vehicles. Is there something for us?
Yes. The same Defra mandate covers permitted tyre collection and recycling sites, and TyreHQ is our product built for them: tyre loads booked in by count and weight, reported to Defra in one tap. See TyreHQ ↗
Listed on GOV.UK as a Report receipt of waste software provider ↗ · Built to Defra's Digital Waste Tracking standard · Parts listed on the yard's own eBay account · Tested offline in real yard conditions