Waste, Anaerobic Digestion & Circular Economy
Waste & Circular: For Advisers & Agents
What Waste & Circular changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.
Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. Farm waste is a compliance obligation with a hidden nutrient and energy value inside it. This module manages waste duty of care and disposal routes, values manures and digestate as fertiliser rather than as a problem, and appraises anaerobic digestion honestly — including the cases where the feedstock simply is not there.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Regulator
Waste compliance
Needs transfer notes and consignment records available.
- Register every waste stream
- Assign compliant disposal or recovery routes
- Generate and retain duty of care documentation
- Value manures and digestate as nutrients
Anaerobic digestion operator
Feedstock sourcing
Needs reliable feedstock contracts and digestate offtake.
- Assign compliant disposal or recovery routes
- Generate and retain duty of care documentation
- Value manures and digestate as nutrients
- Appraise anaerobic digestion honestly against feedstock
Dairy farmer
Large slurry volume
Needs slurry valued as fertiliser in the nutrient plan.
- Generate and retain duty of care documentation
- Value manures and digestate as nutrients
- Appraise anaerobic digestion honestly against feedstock
- Contract feedstock or digestate partnerships where appropriate
End to end
How Waste & Circular runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Register every waste stream
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Assign compliant disposal or recovery routes
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Generate and retain duty of care documentation
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Value manures and digestate as nutrients
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Appraise anaerobic digestion honestly against feedstock
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Contract feedstock or digestate partnerships where appropriate
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Monitor volumes and costs
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Identify further circular opportunities
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Waste & Circular does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Waste stream register by type, volume and disposal route
- Duty of care documentation and waste transfer note management
- Hazardous waste consignment note handling
Operate and monitor
- Farm plastics, tyre and packaging recycling route management
- Manure and slurry nutrient valuation as substitute fertiliser
- Digestate import and export agreements with analysis records
Comply and evidence
- Anaerobic digestion feasibility appraisal with honest feedstock assessment
- Feedstock supply and offtake partnership modelling
- Composting and in-vessel treatment planning
Analyse and improve
- Surplus food redistribution and by-product valorisation
- Silage effluent and dirty water management compliance
- Circular economy opportunity identification across the enterprise mix
Payment schedule
What is due, and when it lands
Farm support arrives in instalments from several bodies on different calendars. Set against your own overdraft, the question is not how much but when — so the ledger is ordered by date, not by scheme.
| When | Payment | From | Amount | Status |
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| February | Slurry Infrastructure Grant | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Expected |
| June | Improving Farm Productivity Grant | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Agreed |
| February | Farming Transformation Fund | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Eligible |
| June | Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Eligible |
| March | Countryside Stewardship | Defra / Natural England / Rural Payments Agency | — | Eligible |
| June | Environmental Land Management Capital Grants | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Eligible |
- — Agreed and scheduled
- — Claimed, awaiting payment
- — Eligible, unclaimed
What the statuses mean
- Agreed
- Under a signed agreement with a scheduled payment date.
- Expected
- Claimed and assessed; payment date per the published standard.
- Eligible
- Your holding appears to qualify but nothing is claimed yet.
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Waste & Circular
The problem: Needs duty of care documentation right for every movement.
What they do
- Register every waste stream
- Assign compliant disposal or recovery routes
- Generate and retain duty of care documentation
- Value manures and digestate as nutrients
What changes
- Waste movements with complete documentation
- Nutrient value recovered from manures
- Waste cost per hectare
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Waste movements with complete documentation
- 02Nutrient value recovered from manures
- 03Waste cost per hectare
- 04Recycling rate
- 05Feedstock contract value
Free tool
Run the numbers for your own holding
Enter your figures and get an answer you can act on, with the method shown so you can check it. Save the result to your account or take it away as a PDF.