Know what the evidence covers.

WasteSignal covers Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales. Source depth differs between nations, fields and records. Review coverage by source and subject alongside the findings.

A registration, a site permission, a company filing and an enforcement publication describe different things. WasteSignal is designed to connect them while preserving their own references, dates and scope.

Company records and available insolvency notices can add context to a supplier review. They do not provide a complete credit score. Published regulatory events will need their type and outcome retained; a suspected issue, an undertaking and a conviction must not be treated as equivalent.

• Legal identity, aliases and matching confidence.
• Registrations and relevant status or renewal information.
• Sites, operators, permissions and supported activities.
• Available corporate and regulatory publications with their context.

A report published today may describe last year. A document discovered today may describe an older event. We plan to distinguish the effective or event date, publication date and the date WasteSignal detected the information.

Freshness depends on what a publisher releases, how frequently it can be collected and whether the record needs review. The service should explain that context rather than describe all information as real-time.

Profiles and reports distinguish unavailable information, information not yet checked, and fields that do not apply. An unresolved match should stay unresolved until the evidence supports it.

A missing record may need investigation into the identity, source coverage, a changed reference or a collection problem. It should not automatically become an adverse finding about a business.

We build longitudinal history by retaining supported observations and acquiring reliable historical material where use and retention are permitted.

We will not reconstruct unsupported past register states from today’s records. Imported historical evidence must be distinguishable from a newly occurring event, and gaps in the record should remain clear.

Public access to a record does not settle every question about reuse. Each source must be reviewed for display, monitoring, exports, API access and retained history.

Output rules apply consistently across the website, PDFs, datasets and future integrations. Where rights limit an output, the limitation must be disclosed rather than removed by changing the format.

Registration and site permission are distinct checks. Permission evidence also needs to be considered alongside the proposed activity and waste. Current acceptance, capacity and commercial terms must be confirmed with the operator.