Soil and inert waste recycling sites: tonnage in, return out
Inert waste recycling site software, built for the soil, concrete and muck away loads that cross a yard's weighbridge all day. Skiplog records each load as a digital waste transfer note, keeps a running total of tonnage by waste type, and exports the quarterly Environment Agency return as a CSV in the column layout the EA asks for.
What an inert yard has to record, and where it goes
An inert recycling site runs on weight, not on paperwork. Soil and stones off a groundworks job, concrete and brick from a demolition, the mixed load the screen will not take, the muck away tipper that comes back three times before lunch. There are only a handful of waste descriptions on most inert sites, and an enormous amount of tonnage moving through them.
Every one of those movements needs a transfer note: the waste described, its List of Waste code, the quantity, the carrier and their registration number, and the destination the load went to. The weighbridge ticket already carries the weight. The transfer note is the part that gets written in a duplicate book in the cab, photographed on a phone, left on a dashboard, or filled in later from memory.
What that costs at quarter end
- Someone has to find every load for three months, across a ticket book, a wad of paper notes and whatever the loader driver remembers.
- Tonnage has to be totalled by waste type by hand. An inert site moves the kind of weight where one missed tipper visibly changes the figure.
- The spreadsheet then has to be reshaped into the columns the Environment Agency wants, which is an afternoon nobody on a working site has.
- Nothing tells you where the quarter stands until the quarter is already over.
The decision in front of most soil yards
One route is a full operations suite: weighbridge ticketing, haulage planning, aggregate sales, job costing, priced and configured for a company a good deal larger than a one-site soil yard with a handful of staff. The other is to keep the paper and rebuild the return by hand every three months, which is what most yards still do, and which gets harder as waste record keeping moves to digital.
Skiplog sits in a third place on purpose. It is the waste record and the quarterly return, nothing else: the transfer note at the bridge, the tonnage as it builds, the file you send the EA. It is made for a site with one to twenty people and no compliance clerk, and it is priced so a yard can read the price and decide in a minute.
From the weighbridge to the quarterly return
- Set the yard up once
Site name, address, region and your EA permit or exemption number. Every transfer note and every generated return is then headed with the yard it belongs to, so you are not writing the permit number out by hand each quarter.
- Write the note where the load is weighed
On a phone or the yard tablet: waste description, EWC code, quantity off the weighbridge ticket, carrier name and licence, destination site. The form carries the fields the EA mandates and is built to be finished in under two minutes, between one tipper and the next.
- Keep recording down in the void
A note saves to the device first and shows its own status, queued, syncing or synced, so a load weighed where there is no signal is still a recorded load. It goes to the office on its own when connectivity returns.
- Watch the tonnage build through the quarter
The site dashboard shows transfer notes logged, tonnage by waste type for the quarter, and a compliance status overview. The quarter's figure is something you have been looking at for twelve weeks, not something you discover in the last one.
- Keep the hauliers' registrations in date
Carrier, broker and dealer registrations are tracked with their expiry dates on a dashboard, with an email alert for anything expiring inside 30 days. Covered in more detail on the registration expiry page.
- Export the return and send it
At quarter end, one click produces a CSV in a configurable EA-specified column layout, ready to submit without manual reformatting. The quarterly return page walks through what the file contains.
What matters on a soil and inert site
Tonnage by waste type, kept for you
An inert yard is judged on weight, and the dashboard totals the quarter's tonnage by waste type as the notes come in. No month-end retyping of weighbridge tickets into a spreadsheet to find out what the site took.
A high-volume quarter costs no more
A soil yard writes more notes than a skip round does. Both plans include unlimited waste transfer notes and unlimited registrations tracked on one site, so a busy quarter does not change the bill.
The return is a file, not a weekend
One-click CSV export in a configurable EA column layout, generated from the notes already recorded. The work that used to happen in the week after the quarter ends happened at the weighbridge instead.
Recorded at the bridge, not retyped later
The note is written on the tablet while the tipper is still on the plate, by the person who read the weight. Nothing is transcribed twice, so there is one fewer place for a wrong figure to come from.
No signal is not an excuse for no record
Pits, voids and screened-off corners of a yard are where mobile coverage dies. Notes save locally first with a visible sync status and send themselves when the signal is back.
A price you can read before you start
£129 a month, or £1,188 a year, which is the same product at £99 a month billed once a year. Both come with a 60-day free trial and cover one site.
Quarter end, two ways
| The job | Paper tickets and a spreadsheet | With Skiplog |
|---|---|---|
| Finding every load for the quarter | Work through the duplicate book, the loose notes and the weighbridge tickets and hope none went missing | Every note recorded on a device sits in one register for the site |
| Totalling tonnage by waste type | Retype weights into a spreadsheet and add them up by hand | The dashboard shows the quarter's tonnage by waste type as notes are logged |
| Producing the return | Reshape the spreadsheet into the columns the EA asks for | One-click CSV export in a configurable EA-specified column layout |
| Knowing where the site stands mid-quarter | Nobody knows until someone sits down and adds it up | Notes logged, tonnage and a compliance status overview on one screen |
| A load weighed with no signal | Written on paper and retyped later, if the paper survives the day | Saved on the device with a visible queued status, syncs when the signal returns |
| A carrier registration about to lapse | Spotted when someone remembers to check the folder | Expiry dates on a dashboard with an email alert inside 30 days |
What Skiplog does not do
A soil yard buying software should know where the edges are before it starts a trial, not after.
- No weighbridge integration. You read the weight off the ticket and type it into the note. Skiplog does not talk to your bridge, your printer or your indicator.
- One site per subscription. If you run two permitted sites, that is two subscriptions.
- Transfer notes, not consignment notes. Skiplog records waste transfer notes. It does not produce hazardous waste consignment notes.
- It makes the return, you send it. The export is a CSV in the EA column layout for you to submit. Skiplog does not submit anything to the EA on your behalf.
- No operations side. No skip or tipper booking, no haulage planning, no aggregate sales, no job costing. Those live in whatever you already use.
- Email and password sign-in. No single sign-on, and no two-factor authentication today.
What is left is the part a yard cannot skip: the record of every load, the tonnage, and the file the quarter ends with.
What it costs
Annual, £1,188 a year
For yards that plan a season ahead: the same product for £99 a month, billed once a year, with a 60-day free trial. One site, unlimited transfer notes, unlimited registrations tracked, offline capture with a visible sync status, the quarterly EA return as a ready-to-submit CSV and the site dashboard with tonnage by waste type.
Monthly, £129 a month
The same product paid month by month, cancel whenever you like, with a 60-day free trial. One site, unlimited transfer notes, unlimited registrations tracked, and the same offline capture, quarterly CSV return and tonnage dashboard. Card payments are handled by Stripe.
Questions
Does Skiplog connect to my weighbridge?
No. There is no weighbridge integration. The operator reads the weight off the ticket and types it into the quantity field on the note, which on a tablet at the bridge is built to take under two minutes for the whole note.
Can one subscription cover two inert sites?
No. Each plan covers one site, because the site's name, address, region and EA permit or exemption number head every transfer note and every generated return. Two permitted sites means two subscriptions.
Will it work in a pit or a screened-off corner with no signal?
Yes, that is what the offline capture is for. A note saves to the device first and shows a status of queued, syncing or synced, then syncs automatically when connectivity returns, so a load weighed in a black spot is still on the record.
What does the quarterly return actually come out as?
A CSV in a configurable EA-specified column layout, generated in one click from the notes recorded in that quarter, ready to submit without manual reformatting. The quarterly waste return export page goes through it column by column.
Does it handle contaminated soil or asbestos?
Skiplog records waste transfer notes with the waste description, EWC code, quantity, carrier and destination. It does not produce hazardous waste consignment notes, so a hazardous movement still goes on the paperwork your site uses for that today.
If the trial runs out, do I lose the quarter's records?
No. Records are kept while the account is open, and a lapsed trial leaves them readable and exportable. A note you remove comes off your register and your returns but stays on file for the two years the regulations require. Deleting the account removes everything at once.
Who in the yard uses it, the weighbridge or the office?
Both. The weighbridge writes the notes on a phone or tablet, and the office watches the dashboard for notes logged, tonnage by waste type and compliance status, then pulls the return at quarter end. People sign in with an email address and a password.