The gate went digital. The tyre bay didn't.

At midnight, as Wednesday turned into Thursday 1 October 2026, something changed at the gate.

From that moment, every site in England that holds an environmental permit to receive waste has to record each load it takes in on a government system, by the end of the second working day after the day the load arrives. Council tips taking residents' household waste are the main exception. The record includes the name of whoever brought the load and their waste carrier registration number, or the reason there isn't one.

The gate is digital now.

The tyre bay isn't.

These rules ask nothing new of a garage. Waste transfer notes carry on as before. And the duty of care, the part of the law that requires a business producing waste to take reasonable steps to make sure it's dealt with lawfully, hasn't moved. It still starts in the bay, with whoever hands the tyres over.

That's the gap. The site at the end of the journey now keeps a better record than the business at the start of it.

(Some tyres never reach a permitted site at all. They go to sites operating under a registered exemption, such as T8. That's lawful. Those sites simply aren't part of this first step.)

Here's the thing about a gap. It isn't an emergency, and it isn't a deadline. It's a question nobody has asked yet.

The question is this: if someone asked where last March's tyres went, could you show them?

Not "we use a good firm". Not "the collector comes every fortnight". Show them. Who took them. Their registration number, and whether it was valid that day. How many. Where they went.

Paper is good at being written. It's less good at being found.

Habits don't arrive with legislation. They arrive one Tuesday at a time. A look at the registration before the van leaves. A note of the number. A record you can find again in March.

The later phases of digital waste tracking, the ones that would bring in carriers, are planned and not yet law. You don't need a date to start keeping a better record. You need a reason, and you already have one: the duty of care is already yours, and a record is how you show you met it.

Some garages will wait to be told. Others are simply the kind of business that knows where its waste went.

TyresGone exists to make the first part of that record quick to keep: who took the tyres, and whether their registration was valid on the day.