Empowering Collectors, Sorters, Recyclers, Converters, Brand Owners and Traders in the Age of Parity

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / June 10, 2026 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ: SMX)(NASDAQ: SMXWW), a pioneer in digitizing physical materials for a circular economy, today announced the launch of its new Circularity-as-a-Service platform for the plastics industry.

The Circularity-as-a-Service platform combines multiple SMX technologies and service offerings to unlock the economic value of recycled plastics by enabling recyclers, sorters and manufacturers to accurately identify, grade, certify and verify recycled materials, with the goal of creating trusted recycled plastic streams for higher-value applications. By offering trusted and standardized recycled plastic streams, SMX anticipates that recycled materials can qualify for higher-value applications that have traditionally relied on virgin plastics.

The platform supports participants across the plastics value chain, including waste collectors, aggregators, sorters, material recovery facilities (MRFs), mechanical recyclers, chemical recyclers, compounders, pellet producers, resin producers, converters, packaging manufacturers, brand owners, retailers and commodity traders. By combining the Company's molecular marking technology, reader infrastructure, Digital Material Passports, a Recycled Plastic Registry, Marketplace functionality and Plastic Cycle Tokens, SMX is seeking to provide the infrastructure required to create a new generation of verified and certified recycled plastic products.

As global demand for plastics continues to grow, SMX believes that the industry faces a critical challenge: increasing the supply of high-quality recycled materials capable of replacing virgin plastic in more demanding applications. While significant volumes of plastic are collected and recycled each year, limitations in sorting, verification and material grading often prevent recycled plastics from achieving their highest potential value.

SMX is addressing this challenge through its advanced material identification, smart sorting and certification capabilities that would enable used and recycled plastics to be accurately graded according to their composition, recycled content, quality and recycling history. This is expected to allow recyclers and manufacturers to unlock new end markets, improve material performance, increase recyclate value and expand the range of applications where recycled plastics can successfully compete with virgin materials.

As the plastics industry enters the "Age of Parity"-where recycled plastics increasingly compete with virgin plastics on price, quality and availability-the ability to verify, certify and monetize recycled content is becoming a strategic advantage. In addition, SMX believes that governments, investors, manufacturers and consumers are increasingly demanding greater transparency, while regulatory frameworks continue to expand globally.

SMX's platform has been designed to provide the physical and digital infrastructure needed to transform used and recycled plastic from a commodity into a verified, graded and certified material, with the potential to enable higher-value applications, greater market confidence and measurable circularity performance.

Additionally, the platform has been designed to enables participants throughout the plastics ecosystem to potentially:

• Improve sorting efficiency and material recovery yields through smart sorting and material identification;

• Grade recycled plastics based on composition, recycled content, quality and recycling history;

• Verify recycled content and material composition at the material level;

• Unlock higher-value applications traditionally reserved for virgin plastics;

• Create certified recycled plastic streams with trusted quality standards;

• Track loop counts and multiple recycling cycles;

• Create Digital Material Passports for every batch of material;

• Reduce contamination risks and improve recyclate quality;

• Increase the value of recycled materials through certification, transparency and trusted data;

• Access verified recycled plastic marketplaces and buyers;

• Support compliance with EPR, recycled content and sustainability regulations;

• Create Plastic Cycle Tokens linked to verified circularity outcomes; and

• Improve financing opportunities through verified environmental performance.

Through SMX's physical-to-digital infrastructure, recycled material can carry a Digital Material Passport recording polymer type, recycled content, source, grade, verification history, available volume and recycling loop count. This creates a trusted ecosystem where collectors, recyclers, converters, manufacturers, brand owners and traders can transact using verified material data rather than assumptions, improving transparency, circularity performance and economic value across the supply chain.

A cornerstone of the platform is SMX's newly launched Recycled Plastic Registry and Marketplace, where verified recycled plastic can be recorded, certified and made available to qualified buyers. The registry has been designed to establish a trusted source for recycled material quality, availability, location, transaction history, recycled content and material grades, supporting transparent market participation and future price discovery.

The Marketplace creates a new mechanism for connecting verified supply with demand, expected to allow buyers to source certified recycled materials with greater confidence while enabling recyclers and processors to capture additional value from identified higher-quality recycled plastic streams. By transforming recycled plastic from a commodity into a graded and certified material class, the platform was designed to help unlock broader industrial adoption of recycled content.

In addition, SMX's Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) framework enables verified recycling outcomes to be digitally represented and tracked, creating new opportunities for circularity credits, financing mechanisms and outcome-based funding models. By seeking to transform verified recycling into a measurable and tradeable asset, SMX believes the platform creates additional revenue opportunities for participants throughout the value chain while supporting greater investment into recycling infrastructure.

The launch reflects SMX's vision that recycling must evolve beyond waste management into a value-generating industrial ecosystem. SMX believes that the current demand for plastics cannot be met solely through increased production of virgin materials. Instead, the industry must unlock the value already embedded within existing plastic waste streams. Through grading, certification, verification and enhanced recovery, SMX believes that recycled plastics can increasingly serve as a reliable and scalable source of raw material for the global economy.

By providing the infrastructure to verify, certify, track and monetize recycled materials, SMX is seeking to enable a transition from fragmented recycling systems toward a transparent and data-driven circular economy. SMX intends that the platform will allow waste materials to be transformed into verified resources, support the creation of premium recycled material streams, facilitate trusted transactions between market participants and lay the foundation for new circularity-linked financial products and revenue opportunities.

Through the combination of molecular marking, Digital Material Passports, a Recycled Plastic Registry, Marketplace infrastructure and Plastic Cycle Tokens, SMX is seeking to create the framework for recycled plastics to become a globally recognized, graded, certified and tradeable asset class.

The launch forms part of SMX's broader strategy to establish global industry standards for verified recycled plastics and accelerate the transition from a linear economy to a circular materials ecosystem where waste becomes a valuable, trusted and commercially attractive resource.

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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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