Looking Back at 2025 and Ahead to 2026
As 2025 concludes and 2026 begins, Plastiks expresses gratitude to its partners, clients, and the broader ecosystem for the trust, collaboration, and momentum built together. Plastiks is dedicated to transforming real-world plastic recovery into verifiable, audit-ready compliance data, ensuring that environmental claims are robust enough to withstand scrutiny from regulators, investors, and the public. The company's vision is to establish itself as the leading infrastructure for EPR-aligned traceability, evidence-backed Plastic Credits, and the next generation of reporting frameworks, where transparency is a verifiable standard rather than a matter of trust.
To commemorate the start of the new year, Plastiks is sharing a significant achievement: Cointelegraph has published an exclusive article detailing Plastiks' Cardano-based infrastructure. The article emphasizes how verified recovery evidence is anchored on-chain to mitigate greenwashing risks and facilitate compliance-grade ESG reporting.
Key Achievements in 2025: Building the Foundation
In 2025, Plastiks focused on establishing a scalable foundation. This included expanding its accreditation and verification model for Plastic Recovery Entities such as cooperatives, recyclers, NGOs, and waste managers. This expansion involved transforming documented recovery into NFT-based Digital Recovery Certificates anchored on the Cardano blockchain.
The company also strengthened its systems of trust by implementing ISO 9001:2015-certified management processes. This rigorous approach combines process integrity with advanced technology, including blockchain and AI, to ensure the credibility of data over time.
Product development was accelerated with significant support, including ₳650,000 from Cardano Project Catalyst (Fund 13). This funding was allocated to building open infrastructure for plastic-credit issuance, compliance-ready reporting, and a Regenerative Finance (ReFi) protocol powered by USDM.
Furthermore, Plastiks deepened its real-world deployments across both public and private sectors. These initiatives include collaborations with UNDP-linked projects, pilot programs, and partnerships within the sports and FMCG industries, such as Danone Spain's ReNueva program.
Outlook for 2026: Scaling from Pilots to Infrastructure
Looking ahead to 2026, Plastiks plans to scale its operations beyond individual campaigns to implement national-scale, EPR-aligned traceability systems. This will involve developing repeatable implementation playbooks in collaboration with UNDP country programs.
The platform will be aligned with the evolving EU packaging regulations and the implementation of Digital Product Passports, ensuring compliance is an integral part of the design process rather than an afterthought.
Plastiks will also expand its role within Cardano's impact and regenerative finance ecosystem, focusing on evidence-based contributions rather than speculative hype.
The experiences of 2025 have reinforced a key understanding: the future of circularity will be driven by superior data, not by exaggerated claims.
Further Information
The press release detailing Plastiks' Cardano-based infrastructure, which transforms plastic recovery into verifiable ESG compliance data, can be found on Cointelegraph.
The future of circularity won’t be won by louder claims—it will be won by better data.
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