One note for a whole year of repeat collections
A season ticket is the everyday name for an annual waste transfer note. When you collect the same waste from the same customer again and again, one note can cover the lot for up to a year, instead of a fresh note every single visit.
What is a season ticket?
Under the waste duty of care, a transfer note has to cover every movement of non-hazardous waste from one holder to the next. Where the same waste moves between the same two parties on a regular basis, you do not need a new note each time. One note can cover a whole series of those transfers. That is a season ticket.
It is the same legal document, a waste transfer note, used once to describe a repeating job. A skip firm emptying the same builder's yard each week, or a tanker lifting the same trade effluent each month, can hold one ticket for the year rather than a filing cabinet of near-identical notes.
When a season ticket is allowed
A season ticket only holds while three things stay the same for the life of the note. If any one of them changes, the ticket no longer covers the transfer and you need a new one.
A season ticket can run for up to 12 months. After that you start a fresh one. A season ticket is for the duty of care and non-hazardous waste only. You cannot season-ticket hazardous waste. Every hazardous movement needs its own consignment note, because the details can change load to load.
If the holder, the carrier, or the type of waste changes partway through the year, the season ticket stops covering that collection. That is the most common way a ticket quietly stops being valid, so it is worth watching.
How Consigns handles season tickets
- Set it up once. You create the ticket with the holder, the carrier, and the waste locked in, and the collection pattern that repeats.
- Every collection logs against it. Each visit is recorded under the one ticket, so you have proof of every transfer without raising a new note.
- The details cannot drift. Because the three fixed parts are locked at the start, a repeat collection cannot quietly change one of them without being flagged.
- You are reminded before it runs out. Consigns tells you when a ticket is coming up to its year, so you start the next one in good time and never carry on under an expired note.
Consigns locks the holder, carrier, and waste when a season ticket is created, then checks every repeat collection against them. If a job no longer matches, it is flagged rather than filed under a note that does not cover it.
How much does it cost?
Season tickets are part of the scheduling and repeat-collection tools in Consigns. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial, so you can set up a real ticket and see it work first. See the current plans on our pricing page, or start your free trial.