Marketplace
MARKET — Cross-Continental Circular Materials Marketplace
Buy certified recycled materials — with all the paperwork already attached.
A B2B circular-materials marketplace where every listing must carry verified recycled content and full chain-of-custody documentation. Designed so EU and UK buyers can source certified material without rebuilding their compliance paperwork. Currently under development with design-partner sellers and buyers.
Verified-circular floor
Listing-required
Sourcing geographies
Africa · EU · UK
Escrow settlement
USD · GBP · EUR
Overview
What MARKET — Cross-Continental Circular Materials Marketplace does
If you need certified recycled content to meet EU PPWR, UK Plastic Packaging Tax or the EU Battery Regulation — and you cannot source enough within Europe — MARKET is being designed to connect you directly to verified African and global suppliers. Every batch will carry the EU PPWR certificate and UK PPT credit evidence in the listing itself. One transaction. Every document.
MARKET applies a verified-circular floor on every listing. Material that does not meet a minimum verified recycled-content threshold cannot be listed. This is a listing requirement, not a guideline — designed to protect buyers from purchasing material that will fail their EU PPWR auditors, HMRC PPT assessors, or Battery Regulation reviewers.
For African sellers, MARKET is being designed as the direct EU and UK buyer channel. List certified secondary materials, access design-partner trade-finance facilitation, settle in USD, GBP or EUR through escrow, and get matched with buyers who are legally required to source what you produce.
Currently under development. Pilot tenants get preferential design-partner terms, direct schema input and access ahead of public release.
If you're buying recycled content, you know this problem
Sound familiar?
We need certified recycled plastic to stay clear of UK Plastic Packaging Tax exposure. Our current suppliers can't guarantee the percentage — and can't document it in a form HMRC will accept.
EU PPWR sets a recycled-content floor for our packaging by 2030. We've looked at European suppliers — there simply isn't enough certified material at the volume we need.
We need cobalt and lithium for our battery cells. The EU Battery Regulation requires recycled critical-mineral content from 2030. We're building our supply chain now — and there's no organised, certified source.
We bought recycled material with a sustainability certificate. Our EU auditors rejected it. The certificate wasn't connected to physical chain-of-custody data. We had to redo the entire submission.
Our answer
MARKET is being designed for exactly this gap.
Every listing is being designed to carry verified recycled content plus the EU PPWR certificate and UK PPT credit evidence as part of the listing itself — and to plug into TRACE for chain-of-custody and VERIFY for material identity. The verified-circular floor is a listing requirement, not a guideline: material that does not meet the minimum verified recycled-content threshold cannot be listed. Currently under development with design-partner sellers and buyers.
Capabilities
What you get
EU + UK dual-certified per batch
Designed for the cross-continental supply gap — Africa to EU
Verified recycled-content floor enforced at listing time
Documented chain-of-custody from collection to factory gate
Tri-currency escrow settlement: USD, GBP, EUR
Design-partner trade-finance facilitation for verified sellers
What is being designed to be tradeable on MARKET
7 certified material streams shaped for cross-continental supply.
Recycled plastics
HDPE, LDPE, PET and PP pellets designed to ship with EU PPWR certificate and UK PPT credit evidence in the listing. African and global origin, dual-market certified by design.
Certified metals
Ferrous and non-ferrous scrap — steel, aluminium, copper — designed to be certified against EU and UK standards with chain-of-custody documented from collection.
Critical raw materials
Lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and rare earths from e-waste streams. Designed to be certified for EU CRMA and UK Critical Minerals Strategy. Forward contracts planned for EV battery manufacturers.
Recycled aggregate
Construction and demolition waste processed into certified recycled aggregate for building use. Designed with planning-authority documentation included in the listing.
Paper & board
Graded bales to paper mills against EU and UK recovered-paper standards. Consistent quality grading from sorted streams shaped for PPWR recycled-content certificates.
Recycled fibres
Textile fibres for EU EPR compliance with composition documented for DPP requirements. African collection feeding EU fibre-to-fibre recycling capacity by design.
Biogas & organic energy
Clean energy from organic waste streams designed for long-term offtake with industrial anchors. Shaped for UK CfD support where applicable; bio-LNG aimed at industrial decarbonisation.
Who it's for
Who MARKET is being designed for
Sellers — African recyclers & processors
List certified secondary materials directly to EU and UK buyers who are legally required to source recycled content. Designed for free listing, design-partner trade-finance facilitation and tri-currency escrow.
Sellers — industrial waste generators
Monetise diverted streams as documented, certified material rather than paying disposal fees. Designed to publish straight into the marketplace from the TRANSFORM operational data.
Buyers — EU manufacturers & brand owners
Source certified recycled feedstock with EU PPWR certification and UK PPT credit evidence already attached. Designed so procurement teams stop rebuilding the same documentation per order.
Buyers — battery & critical-minerals procurement
Forward-contract critical mineral supply with EU CRMA and UK Critical Minerals Strategy certification. Designed for chain-of-custody from collection to your cell-assembly line.
What pilot partners get
What pilot partners get
- Design-partner access to verified sellers and buyers before public release
- Listings designed to carry EU PPWR certificate and UK PPT credit evidence in-line
- Tri-currency escrow settlement (USD, GBP, EUR) by design
- Chain-of-custody linked back into TRACE for buyer-side auditing
- Trade-finance facilitation with our design-partner finance network
Regulation
Built around EU and UK procurement regulation
Designed against EU PPWR (Reg. 2025/40) recycled-content thresholds, the EU Battery Regulation (2023/1542) recycled-content rules, the EU CRMA on critical raw materials, the UK Plastic Packaging Tax framework and CSRD/ESRS E5 disclosure. Designed to comply with the EU Green Claims Directive — no listed claim that cannot be re-verified.
Get started
Founding sellers and buyers shape the listing rules
Apply as a pilot seller, design-partner buyer or trade-finance partner before public launch.