About WasteSync

Built for Resilience, Not Hype

WasteSync was founded to answer one question for UK waste receiving sites ahead of the October 2026 Digital Waste Tracking mandate: what happens when the national system or your internet connection fails?

We develop offline-first continuity software that keeps weighbridges running and compliance intact, even during outages. No lost loads. No manual paper fallback. No compliance gaps.

Why Now: The Road to October 2026

Under the Environment Act 2021 framework, the UK is transitioning to a mandatory digital tracking registry. For detailed dates and compliance requirements, visit our Digital Waste Tracking UK: Regulatory Hub. Here is the operational timeline:

  • Late 2025 – Early 2026: System testing and pilot phases.
  • October 2026 Digital Hard-Stop: The UK government intends to make digital tracking mandatory for all permitted waste receivers. Paper transfer notes will cease to be legally compliant.
  • April 2027 Expansion: Digital reporting mandates expand across the wider carrier and broker chains.

Without a local backup, any broadband outage or central database drop after October 2026 will halt vehicle intake. WasteSync is that backup.

Our Backing

We are proud to be:

  • Supported by Geovation Scotland, backed by Ordnance Survey and Registers of Scotland.
  • Selected for the University of Strathclyde Inspire Accelerator.
  • Supported by Techscaler, Scotland’s national startup programme, backed by the Scottish Government.
  • A Netlify Partner, building on secure web infrastructure.
  • Supported by Google for Startups, with access to Google’s technical resources.

Our philosophy is simple: Robust over flashy. Every decision is made with regulated waste sites in mind: simple for operators, secure for compliance teams, UK data residency throughout.

We exist to give site managers and operators one less thing to worry about when the 2026 digital hard-stop arrives.

Leadership

Alastair Mackie

Alastair Mackie

Strategic Lead / CEO

Alastair is an infrastructure engineer who kept watching cloud-dependent weighbridge systems fall over in remote quarries. He founded WasteSync to build the local-first backup those sites were missing. He leads the technical side: the offline-first architecture and the compliance standards it has to meet.

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Iain Baxter

Iain Baxter

Head of Product

Iain leads product at WasteSync. Over 20+ years coaching product and delivery teams from the London Stock Exchange to whisky companies, he's learned it comes down to building the right thing and building it right: backing the highest impact work, engineering it in the right way and shipping it fast.

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Lee Clark

Lee Clark

Partner, Growth

Lee is a growth leader and CEO of Authentic, with over 20 years’ experience helping businesses build stronger sales, marketing and customer-growth systems.

At WasteSync, Authentic leads our go-to-market work: sharpening how we reach the right operators, turn early conversations into productive pilots, and build trusted commercial relationships across the waste sector.

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