NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 29, 2025 / As well-meaning as lengthy debates may be, the bottom line is simple: the system designed to create sustainable plastics circularity is broken. And the world doesn’t need-or want-to struggle through another decade of testing to figure out what might work. It needs results. Pilots and frameworks have had their moment. They’ve built awareness and stirred ambition. That’s a plus. But ambition without implementation doesn’t solve the problem. The world doesn’t need more rhetoric-it needs measurable outcomes.
SMX (NASDAQ: SMX) is delivering exactly that. Its Global Plastics Passport, made possible by its invisible molecular marking technology, is the ultimate toolbox for real, measurable circularity-capable of tracking and monetizing all grades of plastics across industries, not just the narrow slice of packaging plastics, PET, and rPET, that dominates headlines.
SMX is so motivated to drive change and unify fragmented efforts that it’s willing to offer its Global Plastics Passport technology for licensing, directly aimed at facilitating a UN Plastics Treaty. FREE OF CHARGE! Why is this timely? Because, unlike pilot solutions that address only one category of waste, SMX’s system embeds molecular proof directly into an array of plastic materials and links it to immutable digital records. Every polymer-food-grade PET, construction resins, automotive plastics, electronics polymers, or textiles- can be traced, verified, valued, and monetized. The intended result: circularity is no longer left to arbitrary frameworks but is built on material efficiency, where all resources are captured, measured, and utilized to their fullest potential.
Confidence Matters in a Plastics Market Worth Trillions
Why should the UN accept SMX’s proposal? Because it is the only comprehensive solution capable of reconciling diverse policy perspectives by valuing all types of plastics. That matters-and it’s exactly why negotiators should adopt SMX’s technology sooner rather than later. Doing so reframes the entire debate around real, broad-based plastics circularity. A food-grade polymer faces very different standards than a construction-grade resin. High-performance plastics in electronics carry risks that single-use packaging never will. These differences create regulatory, financial, and reputational risks for governments, brands, and investors alike. SMX mitigates them by embedding intelligence inside materials, ensuring value is specific, not generalized-while proving compliance, accountability, and economic worth all at once. That precision fosters confidence where frameworks often fall short.
Confidence is critical because global treaty discussions have repeatedly stalled on the same dividing questions: should we cap virgin production or raise recycling rates? Should we restrict the production of PET or rPET plastics? Should we keep commitments voluntarily or make them binding? Should we focus narrowly on end-of-life or tackle design and additives? With no consensus at the UN Plastics Treaty conference in August, once again, progress grinds to a halt.
The too often response- run more pilots. However, there’s no need to do that when SMX is willing to provide the world with the solution it needs. Especially one that caters to urgency, which is the only currency that matters now. In other words, the time is ripe to shift from proof-of-concept to proof-in-practice.
SMX delivers the latter. Its molecular-based marking technology embeds invisible markers into plastics, textiles, metals, and even natural rubber-tracking each product through use, recycling, and chemical transformation. Every item becomes inseparably linked to a transparent, verifiable digital ledger. That provides regulators with a compliance tool they can trust, recyclers with proof they can monetize, and brands with the signature of authenticity they can defend. And yes, countries are turning to SMX as we speak.
Singapore and ASEAN Show What Leadership Looks Like
Specifically, Singapore and ASEAN have emerged as world leaders by treating circularity not as a public relations exercise but as an operational, economic priority. Their frameworks acknowledge what others have ignored: the current system is failing. Not for lack of ambition, but because it was designed too narrowly. By adopting SMX’s Global Plastics Passport technology, they’ve shown the willingness to correct that design flaw-tracking, valuing, and monetizing all grades of plastics across multiple industries, not just packaging.
The impact is profound, noting that while industry guidelines and project frameworks help align language, they can’t provide verification clarity. No matter how boldly stamped, self-stamped declarations cannot prove origin, use, or recycled content. SMX can, by embedding proof inside the material itself, transform circularity from statements into facts-and from facts into financial value through its innovative Plastic Cycle Token (PCT). This tradable asset converts value from verified plastics into marketable digital assets. In brilliant fashion, it takes what was once a compliance cost and transforms into a new class of commodity backed by material efficiency itself.
Incentives Are the Value Drivers
The world should hope that the UN accepts SMX’s offer. Because everyone wins. By licensing its Global Plastics Passport specifically to support a UN Plastics Treaty, SMX is removing the final barrier to adoption, ensuring that every player in the value chain, from Singapore to Europe to North America, can share in the benefits.
Pledges and pilots are the past-proof is the future. With Singapore and ASEAN leading by example and SMX providing the toolbox, circularity moves from ambition to proof, and from proof to profit.
By offering its Global Plastics Passport for licensing to facilitate a UN Plastics Treaty, SMX positions itself not only as the enabler of circularity but also as the leader setting the global standard. This system doesn’t just work-it rewards. And that equalizing incentive is why the next wave of industries and nations will join SMX’s league, turning today’s regional leadership into tomorrow’s global framework.
Sources and references:
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https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/the-role-of-plastics-in-europe
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https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2022/02/global-plastics-outlook_a653d1c9/de747aef-en.pdf
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https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/recycled-plastics-market
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https://www.eco-business.com/news/singapores-plastic-recycling-rate-drops-to-5-per-cent/
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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/in-singapore-where-trash-becomes-ash-plastics-are-still-a-problem-idUSKCN1J20G
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https://www.nea.gov.sg/our-services/waste-management/waste-statistics-and-overall-recycling
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https://www.verifiedmarketreports.com/product/food-grade-rpet-market/
About SMX
As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.
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