Separate where the law needs it
Each entity's permits, notes and duty of care stay its own. No accidental mixing of records that should never share a file.
For groups and multi-entity operators
One group. Every entity, permit and DEFRA code kept separate.
Run several companies under one roof? Each is its own legal entity, with its own permits, its own duty of care, and its own DEFRA registration. Consigns keeps them apart where the law needs them apart, and gives you one view across the lot.
Built for holding companies, acquisitive groups and anyone running waste through more than one registered business. Part of the wider hazardous waste platform.
Group oversight
Separate by law. Joined by oversight.
Every company in your group carries its own permits and its own duty of care. Mixing their records is how compliance gaps start. Consigns keeps each entity's notes, permits and DEFRA filings in their own lane, while you keep a clear view across all of them from the top.
How DEFRA digital waste tracking works →How a group runs on Consigns
Many companies, one view. Each entity stays its own, step by step.
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Set up each entity
Add every company in the group, each with its own details, permits and DEFRA registration. They stay separate records, not one blurred account.
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Work stays with its company
Jobs, drivers and notes belong to the company that did the work. The right legal party is named on every consignment note, on its own.
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Hand over between your companies
When a load passes from one of your businesses to another, each is a separate party with its own duty of care. Consigns records the handover so the chain never breaks.
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See the whole group from the top
Roll every entity up into one view for oversight and reporting, while each company's audit trail and DEFRA filing stay its own.
When waste moves between your own businesses, the chain still has to hold.
Groups move waste internally all the time. One company collects, another treats it or sends it on. On paper they are separate legal parties, even though they share an owner. Treat that handover loosely and the duty-of-care trail breaks, exactly where an inspector looks first.
Consigns records each handover as a real movement between two registered businesses. The sending company's note and the receiving company's record both stand on their own, so every leg of the journey can be shown, entity by entity.
- Per-entity identity Each company keeps its own details, permits and registration
- Right party, right note The correct legal entity is named on every consignment note
- Controlled handovers Internal movements are logged as proper transfers, not shortcuts
- Group oversight One view across every company, without merging their records
The right DEFRA code, every time
DEFRA registers each organisation on its own and gives each its own code. Consigns files every receipt under the entity that handled the waste, so nothing lands against the wrong company.
One audit trail per company
When the regulator asks about one business, you produce that business's records, clean, without untangling them from the rest of the group.
In a group, every entity stands on its own
The law does not see a group. It sees each registered company. Every legal entity that produces, carries or receives waste has its own duty of care, holds its own permits, and registers with DEFRA on its own. Separate businesses get separate DEFRA codes. Consigns is built around that, so a group runs as many compliant businesses, joined by a single view, not one tangled account.
Rules and registrations differ by nation and by what each company does. We keep each entity to its own, so check the detail for each business.
- 1 viewAcross the whole group
- Per entityPermits, notes and DEFRA codes
- Own trailEach company's audit kept apart
Run your group as the separate businesses it is
Consigns is hazardous waste software for the whole chain. For a group it means each company kept clean and compliant, one place to see across all of them, and controlled handovers in between.
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