NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 5, 2025 / For decades, recycling systems have been trapped by the same barrier: national borders. Every country has its own framework, its own set of rules, and its own definition of success. A plastic bottle recycled in Germany is not the same as one recycled in the United States. A food wrapper collected in Singapore is not counted the same way as one in France. The result has been a fragmented patchwork that slows progress, confuses companies, and prevents true global accountability.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is changing that equation. The company's molecular marking technology and its digital plastic passport are designed to work across borders, not stop at them. It is an idea with profound consequences. Just as the internet created a common language for information and global trade created a common framework for goods, SMX's system is creating a universal standard for proof of recycling. That makes it one of the most important infrastructure plays of the decade.

That assessment results from SMX's innovative technology that turns materials into data, creating material efficiency. Its patented molecular markers are embedded directly into plastics, metals, textiles, and natural rubber, giving every item a scannable, tamper-resistant identity tied to a verified digital passport. That link follows goods from origin through use, recycling, and chemical transformation, proving recycled content, authenticity, and chain of custody in real time. The result is enforceable compliance, anti-counterfeiting, and true material efficiency that converts sustainability from promise to measurable value.

A Common Language For Borderless Efficiency

What makes the SMX passport so powerful is its interoperability. Instead of a company having to comply with one set of rules in Europe, another in the United States, and yet another in Asia, SMX's passport provides a single verifiable digital record that can satisfy all of them. A shoe made with recycled polymers in Vietnam can carry its proof of recycled content all the way to a store in Los Angeles or Paris. A food tray manufactured with recycled inputs in Singapore can be validated and accepted under EU requirements. SMX has built a system that moves with the product, not with the paperwork.

That flexibility unlocks value for global brands. For years, global brands have struggled with the reality that their supply chains span dozens of countries, each with its own regulatory patchwork. They are expected to meet ambitious sustainability targets, but they are forced to comply with inconsistent reporting regimes. With SMX, they can standardize their proof across geographies, turning compliance into a strength rather than a burden. That is the difference between a defensive obligation and an offensive advantage.

The financial layer makes the story even more compelling. SMX's Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) framework takes the verified data from these passports and makes it tradable. This means recycled content is not just certified, it is tokenized into a financial instrument that can be exchanged, audited, and priced on the open market. Waste becomes wealth, and verification becomes value. That is the leap that carbon credits once made for emissions. Now SMX is doing the same for plastics, with a system designed to function globally from the start.

A Strategic Alliance Creates A Blueprint

That inflection point has been reached, evidenced by the significance of Singapore's adoption of SMX's plastic passport. By aligning SMX with its premier research center, ASTAR, to launch the world's first national plastics passport program, Singapore has planted its flag as a first mover. But the value is not limited to one nation. ASEAN alone represents a multi-billion-dollar annual opportunity in recycled plastics, and the European Union has made clear that proof of recycled content will be central to its future regulatory frameworks. By positioning itself as the common denominator, SMX has put itself at the center of a market that spans continents.

Stakeholders should recognize the parallels to past moments in sustainability markets. When the first carbon credit frameworks emerged, the companies that enabled verification and trading became household names in the ESG sector. They created outsized returns because they controlled the infrastructure of proof. SMX is now in that same position, but with a broader and more urgent problem to solve. Plastics are not limited to smokestacks and emissions ledgers. They touch every consumer, every supply chain, and every government policy debate.

A Borderless Plastics Passport

This is why the borderless nature of SMX's passport matters so much. Recycling has stumbled because every country and company has built its own silo instead of a shared system. SMX is breaking those silos open and replacing them with a system that can scale across industries and geographies alike. It is the kind of structural innovation that not only transforms a company but redefines an entire sector.

The circular economy cannot succeed if it remains bound by national lines. It requires a global language of proof, a shared infrastructure of trust, and a financial system that rewards verified performance. SMX has built that foundation.

For companies, it means turning compliance into a market advantage. For countries, it means moving from ambition to measurable achievement. For stakeholders, it means a first look at the architecture of a recycling economy without borders. Best said, everyone's a winner.

References

• https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/erp/supply-chain-fragmentation.shtml

• https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/06/how-asean-can-lead-world-on-plastic-pollution/

• https://www.a-star.edu.sg/

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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