Kolekt Exchange
for Operators

(collectors and recyclers)

  1. Watch the video —> VIDEO

  2. Join as an Operator —> https://operator.kolekt.com

  3. Edit and review your Operator profile

  4. Create a Certificate & submit for review

  5. Kolekt issues the Certificate

  6. Sales

  7. Receive payment

  8. Repeat & create more certificates

The Steps

Join or login as an operator
The steps in detail

How you can benefit
from our Certificates:

  1. Earn additional revenues per tonne

    Your waste recovery service can earn more by selling Kolekt Certificates that prove that you have collected, sorted, processed and recycled waste. We help you verify, issue and sell your certificates via our Kolekt Exchange platform. These certificates are sold to consumer goods companies that need to meet Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) or voluntary targets. Certificate prices can vary from $50 to $1000 per tonne. Read more below.

  2. Better monitoring, better compliance
    In order to issue a Kolekt waste recovery certificate your organisation needs to be able to trace materials coming in and going out, you will also need proof of sale and purchase of your outputs and inputs and have had your operation audited. These steps show that your organisation is ready, for environmental licenses, financing, partnerships and more.

  3. Connect with brands
    The sale of your certificates on Kolekt Exchange will make your organisation visible for consumer goods companies that are interested in the waste management service that you offer.

What are
Kolekt Certificates?

A Kolekt Exchange Certificate (a KXC) is proof of waste recovery.

Types of Certificates
A KXC is proof of sale or delivery of a specified number of tonnes of waste materials due to:

  1. Collection & sorting

  2. Recycling (conversion of materials)

  3. Processing (cleaning, flaking, baling, co-processing, export)

  4. Disposal (in managed landfills)

  5. Reduction and reuse of waste

A Certificate can be sold once
Kolekt certificates are not tradable.
The buyer uses it to prove that it has contributed to waste recovery and complies with EPR regulations or volunatery targets. A certificate is “retired” immediately when purchased.

All Kolekt certificates and operators have been verified for double counting. Operators cannot receive EPR funds or payments from (plastic) Credit schemes for the same tonnes.


Documents that you will need for a certificate
For a KXC Certificate you need the following:

  1. A sales invoice or receipt of delivery of X tonnes of recyclables or waste. One or many Kolekt App two-sided + face recognition transaction can also serve as proof of delivery.

  2. Proof of purchase of the feedstock. Either in receipts, or using a traceability tool like Kolekt APP.

  3. Basic company documents such as company registration, environmental license, possibly audit statements.

  4. An Audit statement that the above 3 documents are real. That the waste recovery service is real; and that the systems used to trace and weigh materials in and out are used consistently and functioning well. The audit needs to be done 1x per year, and may be done in a randomized way on 1%-10% of the invoices, receipts and purchase transactions.

Step by step details

A demo certificate

Has been purchased by a consumer goods company, for 1 tonne. For the service of Collection by the operator Kolekt Recycler NL.

By clicking the link or the QR code at the bottom left, the viewer can inspect the underlying documents of proof.

KOLEKT has verified all underlying documents, the operator and the audit report.