Overview
Plastiks is a verification platform that lets brands prove the plastic waste they sponsor was actually recovered and recycled. Think of it like a paper trail for ocean cleanup: every kilo of plastic gets logged, the paperwork is checked, and the record is written to a public network so it cannot be quietly changed later. Sustainability teams, consumer goods companies, and sports clubs use Plastiks to back up environmental claims with real evidence rather than promises. The platform is certified to the ISO 9001:2015 quality standard1.
Plastiks is a green tech company built on Cardano, with the platform also running on the Celo network2. Each kilogram of recovered plastic is logged, checked against documents like invoices, photos, and location data, and then written to the chain as a digital certificate. That certificate can later be turned into a plastic credit, which is a tradable record that represents a set amount of plastic recovered3.
Key Features
- Recovery records that cannot be changed. Every step in the plastic recovery process is logged and written to the blockchain, so the data can be checked later but cannot be quietly edited or backdated3.
- Credits tied to real work. Each plastic credit is connected to a sustainability roadmap that a recovery group is funding. When companies buy credits, the funding flows to the project actually doing the cleanup, not into a generic pool32.
- Easy dashboard, no wallet needed. Brands manage their sustainability profile, view live counters, and embed a check-and-verify widget on their own website without needing a crypto wallet or any blockchain knowledge2.
- ISO 9001:2015 certification. EUROCERT has certified the Plastiks quality system from start to finish, from data intake to credit issuance. This gives auditors and regulators a recognised standard to check against1.
- EU rules in mind. The platform is designed to support reporting under the EU Green Claims Directive and Extended Producer Responsibility rules, which require companies to back environmental claims with verifiable evidence3.
What to Expect
Visitors land on a marketing site that explains how the verification flow works, with case studies for partners such as Danone, FC Barcelona, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen45. The site also links out to a separate web app at app.plastiks.io, where companies can browse recovery groups, see live recovery counters, and review the certificates tied to their own plastic credit purchases.
Anyone can view the public sustainability dashboards without signing up. Setting up an organisation profile or sponsoring recovery work goes through a sales conversation, since most clients sign on alongside a defined sustainability roadmap. Plastiks also keeps a blog with case studies, regulatory explainers, and partner announcements, which is a useful starting point for sustainability teams sizing up the platform.
For the wider Cardano ecosystem, Plastiks is a supply-chain DApp (an application running on the blockchain) putting real-world assets on chain. The Cardano Foundation has published a case study describing how the platform's measurement, reporting, and verification system replaces manual sustainability reporting with checkable records6. Plastiks has also returned to Project Catalyst across several funding rounds, including a Fund 13 proposal funded with 392,000 ADA to build the Cardano-based plastic credit marketplace for Danone and other brands7.
