Plain-language definitions of the regulations, materials, operations, and technical concepts behind modern circular supply chains.
EU regulation (2024) setting benchmarks for domestic extraction, processing, and recycling of critical and strategic raw materials such as copper, lithium, rare earths, and aluminium. Requires 25% of EU consumption to come from recycled sources by 2030.
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ContainerGrid produces the chain-of-custody evidence and recovery-rate documentation OEMs and refiners need to claim CRMA-eligible secondary material from take-back programs.
EU mechanism that prices the embedded carbon of imported goods (steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, electricity, hydrogen). Recycled content lowers the embedded-emissions calculation, reducing CBAM exposure.
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The platform tracks recycled-content share per batch so importers can substantiate CBAM declarations with verifiable secondary-material flows.
EU directive requiring large companies to disclose detailed sustainability data under ESRS standards, including resource use, circular-economy indicators, and waste flows.
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Recovery rates, R-strategy distribution, and chain-of-custody logs map directly to ESRS E5 (Resource Use & Circular Economy) disclosure requirements.
EU regulation setting recycled-content minimums for plastic packaging, reuse targets, and packaging-design rules. Applies to producers placing packaging on the EU market.
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ContainerGrid orchestrates the closed-loop flow needed to source PPWR-compliant recycled content with documented origin and quality.
EU directive (2012/19/EU) governing collection, treatment, and recovery of electrical and electronic waste. Imposes producer-responsibility obligations and recovery-rate targets.
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The platform automates WEEE collection scheduling, certified-treatment routing, and the documentation evidence producers submit to national registers.
See electronics use caseEU directive setting reuse, recycling, and recovery targets for end-of-life vehicles. The 2023 revision proposal expands obligations to vehicle design, recycled-content, and battery recovery.
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ContainerGrid links OEM take-back with authorised treatment facilities and surfaces per-vehicle material yields for ELV reporting.
See automotive use caseRegulation covering the full battery lifecycle: carbon footprint declarations, recycled-content minimums (cobalt, lithium, nickel, lead), digital battery passport, and end-of-life collection targets.
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Tracks battery serials from decommissioning through recycling, producing the data points required for the digital battery passport.
Policy principle making producers financially and operationally responsible for the post-consumer phase of their products — collection, treatment, and recycling.
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Provides the operational backbone for OEMs to run their own EPR-compliant take-back schemes without depending on collective systems.
A trackable instance of a recoverable material — a specific batch, container, or fraction with defined origin, composition, mass, and quality grade. The smallest commercial unit on the platform.
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Every offtake transaction, recovery KPI, and compliance report rolls up from Material Articles.
Material platformThe hierarchy of circular-economy treatment options for end-of-life products, ordered by retained value: refuse, rethink, reduce, reuse, repair, refurbish, remanufacture, repurpose, recycle, recover, dispose.
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The routing engine selects the optimal R-strategy per article based on economics, regulation, geography, and processing capacity.
Materials recovered from end-of-life products or industrial residues that re-enter production as substitutes for virgin feedstock — copper cathode from scrap, regranulate from packaging, recovered rare earths.
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ContainerGrid is the orchestration layer between secondary-material generation and refining or manufacturing demand.
Materials defined by the EU as economically important and supply-risk-exposed — including copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earths, gallium, magnesium, and silicon metal.
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Recovery of critical materials from decommissioned assets is the primary value driver behind ContainerGrid take-back programs.
An unbroken, auditable record of who handled a material at every step — from the originating asset, through transport and treatment, to the offtaker. Required for recycled-content claims and CRMA, PPWR, and battery-passport evidence.
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Each platform handover writes a timestamped, signed event — the audit trail is generated by default, not bolted on at reporting time.
The proportion of a product made from post-consumer or post-industrial recycled material. Increasingly mandated by PPWR, the EU Battery Regulation, and pending ELV revisions.
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Closed-loop programs documented on ContainerGrid give producers verifiable recycled-content figures per SKU.
The planning, execution, and control of moving goods from the point of use back to the point of recovery — pickup scheduling, container management, transport documentation, and chain-of-custody.
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ContainerGrid automates the operational layer of reverse logistics across asset owners, carriers, and treatment facilities.
How it worksAn OEM- or producer-run scheme to recover their own products at end-of-life. Combines collection logistics, treatment partnerships, material accounting, and compliance reporting under one operational umbrella.
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Take-back programs are the primary unit of work on the platform — every OEM customer runs at least one.
OEM platformThe structured retirement of industrial equipment — transformers, switchgear, pumps, motors, vehicles, battery packs — including disassembly, hazardous-fraction segregation, and routing of recoverable materials.
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Decommissioning is the upstream event that creates Material Articles — the platform captures the asset record at this moment.
The commercial sale of recovered materials to a refiner, smelter, regranulator, or downstream manufacturer. Defined by volume, quality spec, price formula, and delivery terms.
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Offtake matching is one of the two core capabilities of the platform — pairing material generation with refining or manufacturing demand.
Operators that execute the physical circular value chain — recyclers, dismantlers, certified treatment facilities, reverse-logistics carriers, and Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs).
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Service providers operate on ContainerGrid to win take-back contracts, manage workflows, and prove recovery rates.
Service providers platformThe share of input mass that is converted into a usable secondary material output — measured per fraction (copper, aluminium, polymer grade) and per facility. Reported under WEEE, ELV, and battery regulations.
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Recovery rates are computed continuously from input weights and output material articles — not back-calculated quarterly.
A compliance scheme operator that collects EPR fees from producers and contracts collection and treatment on their behalf. Common across packaging, electronics, batteries, and end-of-life vehicles.
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PROs are part of the Circular Service Providers segment and use ContainerGrid to orchestrate their contracted network.
The decision layer that selects, per material article, the optimal R-strategy and downstream destination based on price, regulation, geography, certifications, and available processing capacity.
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One of the two foundational capabilities of the platform, alongside material tracking.
The serialised, event-driven ledger of a material article across the chain — origin, mass, composition, transfers, treatments, and final offtake — produced as a byproduct of normal operations.
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Material tracking is what turns scattered take-back activity into auditable evidence for CRMA, CSRD, and battery-passport reporting.
A platform position that connects multiple asset owners, multiple recyclers, and multiple refiners without taking ownership of the material or competing with any participant — independence is what makes the network function.
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ContainerGrid is built explicitly as a neutral layer — neither OEMs nor recyclers can build this credibly for the wider network themselves.
A structured digital record of a product's composition, origin, repairability, recycled content, and end-of-life handling instructions — mandated by the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and the Battery Regulation.
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End-of-life events captured on ContainerGrid feed back into DPP records, closing the data loop for the next product generation.
Walk through how ContainerGrid turns these concepts into an operating circular supply chain.
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