Wilma Recycling is one system for metals and waste operations: full inwards and outwards tracking, processing of material and objects into recycled grades, stock you can value by grade, government waste reporting done automatically, carbon capture figures your customers can use, and a forward view of material against demand.
In → Out
one unbroken chain of custody
By grade
stock, value and carbon per recycled grade
100%
digital waste-tracking submissions
Processing job complete · PJ-01162
1,000 kg electric motors → 4 grades · 94% recovered
Inwards today
86.4 t
41 tickets · 9 streams
Processed today
52.1 t
into 14 recycled grades
Waste returns
41/41
submitted to DEFRA
Ticket IN-07311 · Mixed WEEE · EWC 16 02 14
3,420 kg net · 6 photos · WTN generated
Job PJ-01163 · Insulated cable · Granulator 1
2,200 kg in · copper granules, PVC, fines · running
Load OUT-02940 · Cast aluminium · 24.2 t
To contract · advice note printed · invoiced
Founding site offer: free onboarding, grade and breakdown setup, and data import for operations that sign up before the DEFRA deadline.
Claim the offer →How it works
Material is weighed in, processed into the grades you sell, stocked by grade, loaded out and reported to the regulator, and every step points back to the ticket it started on.
Gross, tare and net per load, photos per material line, EWC code and carrier details captured at the gate. Metal, mixed waste, skips and WEEE on the same ticket.
Run a processing job against a breakdown: the object or material goes in, weighed outputs come out, each booked to its recycled grade with the residue recorded.
Every recycled grade has its own stock line per site and bay, with tonnage, estimated value from your live price book and the jobs that built it.
Outwards loads draw down the grade, print the advice and delivery notes, generate the Waste Transfer Note and raise the sales invoice, with the margin against the inwards cost visible.
Movements go to DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking service as they complete, EA returns are compiled from the same tickets, and carbon and mass balance figures are ready without a spreadsheet.
Features
One system runs the whole operation, and every module shares the same data, so a ticket, a grade, a job or a load only ever exists once.
Every kilo that crosses the weighbridge in either direction, with the evidence to prove where it came from and where it went.
Define how an object or material breaks down, run the job, weigh the outputs, and the recycled grades are stocked automatically with recovery rate and residue recorded.
See a breakdown →Tonnage, bay and estimated value per grade per site, built from processing jobs and drawn down by loads. Adjustments leave a paper trail.
More on stock →UK Digital Waste Tracking submissions to DEFRA, Environment Agency permit returns, Waste Transfer Notes, hazardous consignment notes and Scrap Metal Dealers Act records, all from the tickets you already raised.
More on reporting →Estimated CO₂e avoided, calculated from the tonnage actually processed into each recycled grade, per customer, per material and per period, with editable emission factors.
More on carbon →Projected stock per grade against contracted and expected buyer demand, so you know which loads will be ready, where you will be short, and what to process first.
More on projections →Skip and bin jobs planned on a day map with live driver GPS, every container tracked by QR code, and days-out counters at customer addresses so the fleet rotates profitably.
Your grades, your breakdowns, your emission factors, your ticket templates and per-user sign-off limits. Wilma is shaped to how your site already works, not the other way round.
Inwards & outwards tracking
Regulators, auditors and customers all ask the same question in different words: can you show me? With Wilma, the answer is one click from the ticket.
Weighed in, with evidence: gross, tare and net from the weighbridge, photos per material line from yard or IP cameras, licence-plate lookup and the supplier's ID, carrier licence and permit on file.
Classified at the gate: every product carries its EWC code and hazard status, so the Waste Transfer Note, the DEFRA submission and the permit return are right before anyone has touched the material.
Followed through processing: the inwards ticket is linked to the processing job it fed, and the job to the recycled grades it produced, so an outwards bale can be traced back to the loads it came from.
Weighed out, invoiced on despatch: outwards loads draw down the grade, print the advice and delivery notes, and raise the sales invoice with the margin against inwards cost on screen.
Mass balance that adds up: inwards, processed, stocked, outwards and residue per site and per period, the figure your permit return and your accountant both want.
Ticket IN-07288 · Mixed WEEE · 3,420 kg
EWC 16 02 14 · Northgate Clearances · carrier CBDU 211884 · 6 photos
Ticket IN-07301 · Electric motors · 1,000 kg
EWC 16 02 16 · Hartley Demolition Ltd · 4 photos
Job PJ-01162 · Shred & separate · Line 2
4,420 kg in → cast aluminium 612 kg, plus 5 other grades
Cast aluminium · Bay 7 · +612 kg
Grade stock now 11,840 kg · est. £17,523 at today's price
Load OUT-02940 · Cast aluminium · 24,200 kg
To Midland Alloys · WTN & advice note · DEFRA submitted · invoiced £34,650
Processing & grading
An electric motor is not one product, it is copper, steel, aluminium and a little waste. Wilma lets you define that breakdown once, then every processing job turns the input into weighed outputs stocked under their recycled grades.
Processing job · PJ-01162
Input
Electric motors, mixed · 1,000 kg
EWC 16 02 16 · from tickets IN-07301, IN-07294
Bought at
£1,120 · £1,120 / t
Copper windings
Recycled grade: Copper No.2
Steel laminations & shafts
Recycled grade: HMS 1 & 2
Aluminium housings
Recycled grade: Cast aluminium
Residue & fines
Waste stream: EWC 19 12 12 · to disposal
Mass balance
1,000 in · 1,000 out
balanced, no unexplained loss
Recovery rate
94.2%
to recycled grades · 5.8% residue
Value uplift
£1,120 → £1,443
+£323 before processing cost
Illustrative figures. Yields come from your own breakdowns and are corrected by the weighed outputs on each job.
For each input material or object, set what it typically yields and in which recycled grades. Wilma suggests the outputs on every job, you weigh what actually came off, and the expected yields learn from the real figures over time.
Completing the job draws the input from unprocessed stock and books each output into its recycled grade, bay and site. Residue is booked to its waste stream with the EWC code, ready for the outbound consignment.
An output can be the input to the next job: zorba goes on to the eddy current separator, PCBs to a refiner, fines to a second screen. Every stage keeps its link back to the original tickets.
Copper No.2
6,240 kg · £38,563
Cast aluminium
11,840 kg · £17,523
HMS 1 & 2
48,900 kg · £12,127
PVC granulate
3,110 kg · £467
Unprocessed · electric motors
14,200 kg
Stock by recycled grade
Processing builds stock, loads draw it down, and the price book values it. Unprocessed material sits alongside, with the grades it will become, so the picture is complete rather than half a yard.
Government waste reporting
Digital waste tracking becomes mandatory in October 2026. Wilma is built against DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking service and submits every completed movement through the Receipt of Waste API automatically, and the same tickets feed your Environment Agency returns, so nothing is compiled by hand.
Automatic DEFRA submission: the moment a ticket completes, the waste movement is submitted to the Digital Waste Tracking service. Full submission history, one-click resubmission for anything that fails.
Environment Agency permit returns: tonnage received, treated, stored and removed per EWC code and period, compiled from your tickets, jobs and stock so the quarterly return is a review rather than a reconstruction.
Duty of care paperwork: Waste Transfer Notes with EWC codes and carrier licence details for every load, hazardous waste consignment notes where the stream requires them, generated alongside the digital submission.
Permit conditions on screen: storage limits per waste type and site, container registers, fire-risk flags, 30-day container warnings and inspection evidence, so a breach is flagged before the officer finds it.
Scrap Metal Dealers Act records: who you bought from, what was received, weights and photos per line, and who weighed, priced and signed off, the records a licensed dealer must keep under the 2013 Act.
DWT submissions
1,284
0 outstanding · 2 resubmitted
Received
3,912 t
across 23 EWC codes
Removed
3,655 t
recovery 93.4%
EA quarterly return · Q3 2026
Compiled from 1,284 movements · ready to review
Storage · EWC 16 02 14 (WEEE)
48 t on site · permit limit 60 t
Hazardous consignment · HZ-00412
Lead-acid batteries · 1,120 kg · consignee confirmed
Site inspection · daily
Fire breaks, PPE, plant · 2 items for attention
Carbon capture reporting
Every tonne processed into a recycled grade displaces virgin production. Wilma converts the material you actually recovered into estimated CO₂e avoided, per grade, per customer and per period, with the factor and its source recorded against every figure.
Hartley Demolition Ltd · year to date
1,942 t CO₂e
estimated avoided, from 1,206 t recovered
Illustrative. Factors are editable per grade and shown with their source on every report.
The figure comes from the weighed output of your processing jobs by recycled grade, so it stands up to scrutiny in a tender or an audit.
Emission factors per grade are editable, dated and sourced. Update them when the guidance changes and every report recalculates from the same material data.
Customers see their own CO₂e avoided on the portal dashboard and on a downloadable statement, a number they can put straight into ESG and supply chain reporting.
Win and keep contracts with customers who have to evidence recycling rates and carbon recovery, with figures from the operator that actually processed the material.
Material to demand projections
Wilma joins up what is in stock by grade, what is still unprocessed and what it will yield, your typical inflow, and what buyers want and when. The result is a forward view that tells you what to process next and which contracts are at risk.
Projected stock per grade: today's stock plus the expected yield of unprocessed material plus your average inflow, week by week.
Demand on the same chart: contracted loads, standing orders and buyer enquiries logged against a grade and a date, so supply and demand sit side by side.
Load-ready dates: when each grade reaches a full load at the current rate, and whether that is before or after the buyer wants it.
Processing priorities: which unprocessed stock to run first to close a gap, and which grades are building with no demand behind them.
Buying signals: when projected demand outstrips inflow, see it early enough to adjust what you pay at the gate for the material that yields it.
Copper No.2
demand 10 t · 5 Nov
Projected 12.0 t · load ready 3 Nov · on time
Cast aluminium
contract 24 t · 5 Nov
Projected 17.0 t · short by 7 t · process 14.2 t motor stock now (+1.6 t), bring forward WEEE line
HMS 1 & 2
standing order 25 t / week
Projected 128 t · 5 loads · surplus 28 t, offer spot
PVC granulate
no demand logged
Building to 4.0 t with no buyer · find an outlet or pause cable line
Recyclers trading platform
Coming soonA trading platform built into Wilma Recycling that connects you with material buyers and sellers across the UK. List the recycled grades your operation produces straight from your grade ledger, see what buyers are looking for, agree a price and let the paperwork and haulage follow.
Early access for Wilma Recycling customers first.
Trading board
Metals & recovered materials · UK
Copper No.2 · 18.2 t
Baled · assay 96.1% Cu · Birmingham B6 · ready now · from your stock
£6,180/t
3 bids · best £6,210
Cast aluminium · 60 t/month
Secondary smelter · Wolverhampton · 12-month contract · collects
£1,520/t
You hold 9.6 t · 4.1 t in process
HMS 1&2 (80:20) · 120 t
Sheared · 5 walking-floor loads · Sheffield S9 · available w/c 2 Nov
£248/t
Open to offers
PVC granulate · 20 t
Compounder · Leicester · one-off · spec attached
£310/t
Matches your 4.0 t with no outlet
All traders verified · EA permit, carrier & broker registration
Agree trade → outwards loadIllustrative board. Prices and listings shown are examples, not live quotes.
The platform
Wilma runs entirely in the cloud and works wherever your people are: the weighbridge PC, a tablet on the processing line, or a driver's phone in the cab, with real people supporting you from day one. It scales from a single transfer station to a multi-site group, and you only pay for what you use.
Skip and bin deliveries, collections and exchanges on a day map with live driver GPS, every container tracked by QR code, and days-out counters so slow bins get flagged for rotation.
Customers get their own login: tonnage by material, invoices, the containers on their sites, their CO₂e statement, and skip bookings without a phone call.
Same-day supplier payments with bank-detail protection, self-bill purchase invoices, sales invoices on despatch and CSV export to your accounts package.
A new weigh-in, a job finishing on the line, a ticket waiting on sign-off or a storage limit approaching: the right person is told straight away.
Single sign-on with roles and per-user sign-off limits, encrypted in transit and at rest, continuous backup and a full audit trail under every ticket, job and load.
Real people from onboarding onwards: grade and breakdown setup, data import, weighbridge integration, staff training and day-to-day support.
Founding site offer
Operations that join before October 2026 get free onboarding, your grades and breakdowns set up with you, data import from your current system, and help registering for Digital Waste Tracking.
FAQ
The whole material journey: weighed inwards tickets, processing of material and objects into recycled grades, grade-level stock per site, outwards loads and sales, UK Digital Waste Tracking and EA returns, carbon capture reporting and projections of stock against buyer demand. One system, one set of data.
You define a breakdown for each input material or object: what it typically yields, in which recycled grades, with expected percentages. When a processing job runs, the input is drawn from stock, the weighed outputs are booked into their recycled grades, and the mass balance, recovery rate and residue are recorded on the job.
Yes. Digital waste tracking becomes mandatory in October 2026, and Wilma submits every completed waste movement to DEFRA's Digital Waste Tracking service automatically through the Receipt of Waste API, with a full submission history and one-click resubmission for anything that fails.
Waste Transfer Notes with EWC codes, hazardous waste consignment notes, DEFRA Digital Waste Tracking submissions, Environment Agency permit returns compiled from your tickets and stock, Scrap Metal Dealers Act records, and storage-limit tracking against your permit conditions.
From the tonnage you actually processed into recycled grades, multiplied by an emission factor per grade for the virgin production it displaces. Factors are editable and the source is recorded, so the CO₂e figure per customer, material and period stands up when a customer puts it in a tender or ESG report.
A forward view that joins up what is in stock by grade, what is still to be processed, what your typical inflow is and what buyers want and when. It tells you which loads will be ready on time, where you will fall short, and what to process first to close the gap.
A marketplace built into Wilma Recycling, coming soon, that connects recyclers with material buyers and sellers across the UK. You list the recycled grades you produce straight from your stock, see what buyers are looking for, agree a price, and the trade becomes an outwards load with the Waste Transfer Note, Digital Waste Tracking submission and invoice generated on despatch. All traders are verified against the EA permit, carrier and broker registers. Wilma Recycling customers get early access first; register your interest.
Tell us a little about your operation and we'll set up a 30-minute demo: inwards, a processing breakdown, grade stock, outwards and the DEFRA return, on your own materials.
Built in the UK, for UK metals and waste operations, from a single transfer station to a multi-site group. GBP pricing, EA compliance, DEFRA reporting. Prefer email? adam@recyclingsoftware.co.uk