In England & Wales a consignment note has three copies, these are for:
- Producers – Whoever produced the waste, either your customer or your own company.
- Carriers – Whoever carried the waste to your site – if this was you should retain the copy, if it was your customer then your customer should retain this copy.
- Consignee – This should be retained by the company who accepts the waste onto site – usually you, the collection point
Taking waste lamps to a Recolight open collection point
Before you drop your lamps at the collection point, you need to complete a consignment note, This is a triplicate form.
EA consignment note download
You will need to complete parts A,B,C & D as the producer and transporter of the waste and the Collection Point will complete part E.
Waste leaving your Recolight collection point
- The Recolight appointed contractor will complete the consignment note on your behalf and bring it with them.
- You sign this consignment note as true and correct, confirming that waste leaving the site matches what is on the consignment note.
The top copy will be left with you.
- When this waste arrives at our Recolight approved contractors site, they will complete part E of the consignment note and a copy will be sent back to you.
- When received, you must attach this part E to the corresponding consignment note as evidence that the waste has been processed at an approved recycler.
N.B. For site licence number in part E, if exempt, annotate this field with NWFD exempt.
EA for guidance documents and example consignment notes.
Backhauling waste
If you are registered with the Environment Agency as a carrier to transfer waste from another site, you must complete a consignment note. If the site from which you collect produces over 500kg of hazardous waste in a twelve month period you will need their premises code. You can get this from the Public Register
The producers copy should be left at the site you move the waste from. You keep the carriers and consignee copy, which should be fully completed once the waste is accepted onto your site.
Receiving waste at your collection point quarterly returns
As a consignee, you must submit quarterly returns to the Environment Agency to document waste received onto your site.
The cost for a quarterly return is £10.
On this form, the consignment note code should be entered in the format AAANN/QxYYC, where:
AAANN Different for England & Wales – see note below*
Qx the number of the relevant quarter
Q1 – January to March
Q2 – April to June
Q3 – July to September
Q4 – October to December
YY the year, so 16 for 2016
C Country – insert E for England and W for Wales
FOR ENGLAND ONLY
Enter the first six characters of your company name. This must be consistent for all your consignment notes.
FOR WALES
AAANN is your HWPC.
For your quarterly returns you only need to enter one specific code and entry for the whole quarter.
You do not need to do a form for each consignment.
Gov.UK guide to completing quarterly returns