Trash Technologies Launches NovaMine Circular Materials Brand
The launch pairs a recycled-metals brand with third-party digital certification, an attempt to make the chain from collected device to finished product checkable by manufacturers and end users rather than taken on trust.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Trash Technologies released NovaMine, a brand that returns precious metals recovered from used smartphones, computers and home appliances to society as recycled materials. The company will certify the origin and quality of those materials using proovy, a digital certificate platform from Recept that issues credentials based on Verifiable Credentials technology. Trash Technologies manages collection, AI-based sorting and its own refining process, then plans to expand into jewelry, accessories and apparel through partnerships with other companies and brands.
Trash Technologies manages the path from collection of discarded electronics to AI-based sorting to refining through its own process, and says traceability is the point it has to prove. NovaMine supplies the outlet for the recovered gold and other precious metals; proovy supplies the record of where those materials came from and what happened to them. The stated aim is a loop that manufacturers, brands and end users can all inspect, at a time when recycling alone still leaves the later life of a material invisible to the people buying it back.
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