Evidence-linked, deterministic regulatory preflight for England waste workflows. The service is designed for AI agents and workflow automation and fails closed when decisive official evidence is stale, changed, unavailable, unreviewed, conflicting, or required facts are missing.

Production origin: https://waste.regevidencehub.com

Commercial MCP: https://waste.regevidencehub.com/mcp
Payment-free public AI MCP: https://waste.regevidencehub.com/ai/mcp
Health: /health
Status: /status
Metrics: /metrics
Agent card: /.well-known/agent-card.json
MCP discovery: /.well-known/mcp.json
x402 metadata: /.well-known/x402
OpenAPI: /openapi.json
LLM guide: /llms.txt

Decision workflows

Commercial decision tools:

waste_rule_preflight — general England waste route and missing-facts preflight — $0.02 USDC
waste_carrier_broker_dealer_preflight — carrier/broker/dealer registration, renewal and change lifecycle — $0.02 USDC
waste_digital_tracking_readiness — phase-1 Digital Waste Tracking readiness for receiving sites — $0.03 USDC
waste_permit_change_preflight — current-vs-proposed operational change impact — $0.03 USDC

Free discovery/evidence tools include waste_service_info, waste_rule_catalog, waste_source_status, waste_source_audit and waste_source_registry.

The separate /ai/mcp and /openai/mcp public-AI surface is permanently payment-free and read-only. It exposes seven bounded tools: service info, rule catalogue, source status, general preflight, carrier/broker/dealer registration preflight, DWT receipt readiness and permit-change impact.

Evidence model

The checked-in registry contains eight official GOV.UK / Environment Agency sources. All eight now have reviewed semantic fingerprints. On 24 September 2026, a live production audit confirmed five existing baselines unchanged; the carrier/broker/dealer registration source and waste environmental-permits source were manually reviewed and promoted, and the software-provider source was re-reviewed after GOV.UK updated its provider list without changing the modeled DWT obligation or 1 October 2026 timing.

A source is decision-usable only when:

a reviewed semantic SHA-256 baseline exists;
the latest observed fingerprint is UNCHANGED;
the check is inside its freshness window.

CHANGED, FETCH_ERROR, MISSING_BASELINE and stale records fail closed to review.

The service does not infer hazardous status, waste codes, permit conditions, exemption eligibility, regulator approval, or legal advice.

Digital Waste Tracking scope

The DWT workflow models the current England phase-1 receiving-site requirement and keeps later phases separate. It does not create or submit Digital Waste Tracking records.

Production operations

The production surface provides a RegEvidenceHub-style operations contract:

/health — serving/source/payment state
/status — evidence state, prices and 24h metrics
/version — release/deployment identity
/metrics — aggregate discovery/tool/payment funnel telemetry

Analytics are privacy-minimal: scenario payloads are not intentionally persisted. Owner/test payment activity is separated from external/unattributed activity.

Payment

x402 v2 is opt-in through WASTE_PAYMENT_ENFORCED=1. Production uses Base USDC when configured. Required settings:

WASTE_X402_NETWORK
WASTE_X402_PAY_TO
WASTE_X402_FACILITATOR_URL
WASTE_PUBLIC_MCP_URL

WASTE_PAYMENT_MODE=maintenance is a fail-closed kill switch: paid tools remain discoverable but execute no regulatory decision and request no payment.

No buyer private key or seed phrase is handled by this service.

Source monitoring

Use the durable registry path in production:

bash

export WASTE_SOURCE_REGISTRY_PATH=/data/waste/source_registry.json
uk-waste-source-monitor --write

Only after manual review of a completely successful source audit:

bash

uk-waste-source-monitor --establish-baseline

Development and CI

bash

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e '.[mcp,dev]' 'x402[evm]==2.21.0'
python -m compileall -q src
pytest -q

GitHub CI and the Docker build both run compile + tests before a production image is accepted.

Boundary

This is regulatory preflight, not waste-management execution software. It does not submit carrier registrations, environmental permits, exemptions, DWT records, or regulator filings; it does not approve an operation.