Colleco turns the world's secondary materials — recycled polymers, scrap metals, post-consumer textiles, paper, biomass — into a transparent, financeable asset class. Verified suppliers, real prices, regulatory documents at the point of trade.
Every year, the global economy throws away more than two billion tons of materials with real, paying demand on the other side of the planet. The reason is rarely physics. It is information: nobody can prove what the material is, where it came from, who handled it, or whether shipping it across a border will trigger a fine.
Colleco was built to solve that information problem with the same rigor that commodity exchanges brought to oil, copper and grain. Verified counterparties. Standardised lot specifications. Real-time price discovery. Documents that customs officers, auditors and investors can read without a phone call.
The result is a marketplace where a textile recycler in Helsinki can sell to a fiber regenerator in Lahti or a compounder in Antwerp at a fair, public price — and where the buyer's ESG team gets the Digital Product Passport in the same click.
We are not a waste broker. We are the exchange layer for the circular economy.
Every supplier on Colleco is audited against ISO, GRS, FSC, R2 or SBP — whichever the material demands. No verification, no listing.
Spot indices, RFQ tape and bid history are public to verified counterparties. We replace broker opacity with exchange-grade data.
DPP records, CBAM offset codes and chain-of-custody attestations are generated at listing — not bolted on at audit time.
Our taxonomy is recycled-content-first. Virgin material is the exception, not the default. ESG grades A→AAA reward genuine displacement.
Settlement in 14 days across the EU, Gulf, UK and Nordics. Escrowed payouts, FX hedged, customs documentation pre-filed.
API-first, audit-grade UI, Bloomberg-terminal density. Procurement teams adopt us because the workflow is faster than spreadsheets.
Suppliers pass ISO/GRS/FSC/R2 audit. AI vision fingerprints each batch — material, weight, contamination, ESG signature — in under two seconds.
Verified buyers see live lots with a transparent bid tape. RFQs go out, indicative prices come back inside hours, not weeks.
Trade is escrowed and cleared in 14 days. Digital Product Passport, CBAM codes and chain-of-custody attestations are issued automatically.
Onboarding takes a single audit cycle. Most counterparties are trading inside 30 days.