From 1st October 2026, every permitted and licensed waste site in England and Wales must report waste movements digitally through the Government’s Report Receipt of Waste (RRoW) service. For many businesses, that raises one urgent question: how do we get compliant in time, without building a system from scratch?
That’s where ReSort-IQ comes in.
ReSort-IQ is our digital waste movement and weighbridge management system and it’s now listed on DEFRA’s official list of compatible software providers for RRoW. That means it has already passed the required integration and approval testing with the Government’s reporting API, so any waste processor using it is ready for the October deadline from day one.
It captures everything a processor needs in one connected platform: waste movements and transactions, weights and quantities, waste types and volumes and the compliance information regulators require, replacing the fragmented mix of paper records and standalone systems still prevalent in the industry.
Built by a waste processor, not a software company
Most compliance software is built by people who understand code, not waste. ReSort-IQ is different.
Recycling Lives operates across the waste journey as a waste processor, a waste management broker and a Producer Compliance Scheme provider. We deal with the same weighbridge queues, the same paperwork and the same compliance pressures as every other processor in the industry, every single day.
That’s why we built ReSort-IQ ourselves, rather than buying it in. A system designed by people who have never stood on a weighbridge or chased a missing waste transfer note was never going to fit the reality of how processors actually work. ReSort-IQ was shaped by that day-to-day experience, so it fits around real operations instead of adding another layer of complexity on top of them.
We built it for ourselves first
Before we thought about offering ReSort-IQ to anyone else, we built it to solve our own problem: getting our operations ready for digital waste tracking.
It has done far more than that. ReSort-IQ has transformed how we capture, manage and access information across every waste movement we handle. Data that used to sit on paper, or across several disconnected systems, now flows digitally from the moment a movement begins to the moment it’s completed.
That’s meant:
- Less paperwork. Manual, paper-based recording has been replaced with a connected digital process.
- Better data. Information is captured consistently, so we can trust what we’re recording.
- Greater visibility. We can see what’s happening across our waste movements in real time, not after the event.
- Improved efficiency. Less time spent entering, checking and chasing information.
- Stronger compliance. Built-in readiness for the industry’s move to digital reporting.
Better data hasn’t just made our own operations smoother, it has let us respond to customers faster, answer their questions with accurate information and give them confidence that their waste is being tracked and reported properly. In short, better data has meant better customer service.
Now available to your business
We work with more than 2,000 suppliers and we know many businesses across the waste industry are facing the same October deadline without the time or resource to build their own solution.
That’s why we’re now offering ReSort-IQ as a plug-and-play solution to waste processors across the industry. It’s already built, already tested and already proven inside a working waste operation, so instead of starting from scratch, you can adopt a system that’s ready to go.
Using ReSort-IQ means you can be confident you’re meeting the digital tracking requirements from 1st October, while gaining the benefits we’ve seen ourselves: cleaner data, more efficient operations and a better service for your customers.
With a genuinely plug-and-play solution, there’s no need to spend valuable time and money building and testing your own system before the deadline, you can be up and running quickly, with less risk and less complexity.
The move to digital waste management is coming. We’ve already made the change, and we can help you make it too.
Get in touch with our team to find out how ReSort-IQ could work for your business.