Waste transfer note Ireland: a waste docket for each load A docket for each load leaving site, signed by the site and the haulier, with a PDF for each copy.
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Fill in the waste docket
The load
Filled in on site as the load leaves. The site’s representative signs for it.
Is there a waste transfer note in Ireland?
Not for non-hazardous waste. Irish law sets no transfer note like the UK’s. Instead, anyone collecting waste as a business needs a waste collection permit, and the permit makes the collector keep records of each load: the types and quantities, List of Waste codes, where it came from and where it went, for at least 7 years.
Hazardous waste is different: it moves on a Waste Transfer Form bought from Dublin City Council’s portal.
What a waste docket should show
The EPA’s guidelines for construction and demolition projects ask the site’s Resource Manager to get a signed docket from the haulier for every load leaving site, showing what the waste is, its LoW code, the quantity (usually in tonnes), the haulier’s name and collection permit, the vehicle registration and the destination with its authorisation.
This docket holds those items, a signature for the site and one for the haulier. The facility’s weight can be added from its ticket afterwards.
Checking the haulier and the facility
A waste collection permit lasts up to five years; check the haulier’s is current and covers the waste on the NWCPO register. The facility needs a certificate of registration, waste facility permit or waste licence that allows that waste and the treatment it will get.
Questions
Do I need a waste transfer note in Ireland?
Not for non-hazardous waste. The haulier’s collection permit covers the records; a signed docket for each load is what the EPA’s construction guidelines ask the site to keep. Hazardous waste needs a Waste Transfer Form. EPA C&D waste guidelines
Does the haulier need a permit?
A business collecting waste needs a waste collection permit from the National Waste Collection Permit Office. Check the number on its register before the first load. NWCPO
Can the docket be signed on a phone?
Nothing sets how a docket is signed. The site and the haulier can each sign here; download the PDF for a paper copy.
What about hazardous waste, like asbestos?
Hazardous waste moved within Ireland needs a Waste Transfer Form from Dublin City Council’s portal, signed by the notifier and the carrier, for every load. DCC WTF FAQs
Sources
- Waste Management (Collection Permit) Regulations 2007, consolidated to 2023 (NWCPO, PDF), read 6 October 2026
- Best practice guidelines for the preparation of resource and waste management plans for construction and demolition projects (EPA, PDF), read 6 October 2026