Circular economy infrastructure intelligence
Waste-to-value, chemical recycling, resource recovery, and closed-loop systems.
The circular economy represents a fundamental shift from the linear take-make-dispose model to one where materials are continuously cycled back into productive use. This transition requires massive infrastructure investment: advanced recycling facilities, waste-to-energy plants, material recovery systems, industrial symbiosis networks, and the digital platforms enabling resource tracking and optimization.
Chemical recycling — converting waste plastics, tires, and other materials back into chemical feedstocks through pyrolysis, gasification, or depolymerization — is among the fastest-growing segments. These processes can produce hydrogen, syngas, pyrolysis oil, and recovered monomers. Major chemical companies (BASF, SABIC, Dow, LyondellBasell) and waste management firms are investing heavily in chemical recycling capacity, driven by EU packaging regulations, extended producer responsibility mandates, and corporate recycled content targets.
Waste-to-hydrogen represents a convergence point between circular economy and clean energy goals. Gasification of municipal solid waste, industrial waste, and biomass can produce hydrogen while diverting waste from landfills. Critical material recovery — extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, and rare earth elements from end-of-life batteries, electronics, and industrial waste — is increasingly strategic as supply chain security concerns grow.
Delphidata tracks circular economy infrastructure across chemical recycling, mechanical recycling capacity expansions, waste-to-hydrogen and waste-to-energy projects, critical material recovery facilities, industrial symbiosis networks, and the regulatory frameworks (EU Packaging Regulation, Ecodesign Directive, extended producer responsibility) driving investment in circular infrastructure.
What Delphidata tracks.
Structured data across the full value chain.
Chemical recycling facilities
Pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, and solvent-based recycling plants. Mapped with technology type, feedstock (mixed plastics, tires, textiles), output products (pyrolysis oil, syngas, hydrogen, monomers), processing capacity, technology provider, and development status.
Waste-to-hydrogen and waste-to-energy
Municipal solid waste (MSW) gasification, refuse-derived fuel (RDF) processing, and industrial waste conversion projects producing hydrogen, syngas, or electricity. Tracking capacity, feedstock composition, energy output, and integration with hydrogen infrastructure.
Critical material recovery
End-of-life battery recycling (lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese), e-waste processing, rare earth element recovery, and industrial waste stream valorization. Mapped with recovery technology, feedstock source, output materials, recovery rates, and facility capacity.
Policy and regulation
EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, EU Battery Regulation recycled content mandates, extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes, and national waste management strategies. Tracking how regulation creates demand for circular infrastructure.
Companies and value chains
Waste management companies, chemical recyclers, material recovery facility operators, technology providers, and the brand owners and manufacturers driving demand for recycled content. Connected through the knowledge graph with feedstock supply, processing, and off-take relationships.
Who uses this intelligence.
Waste management and recycling companies
Monitor competitor capacity development, track emerging technology options for waste processing, identify partnership opportunities with chemical companies and brand owners, and assess the impact of evolving EPR regulations on business models.
Chemical and materials companies
Track recycled feedstock availability and quality for integration into chemical production, monitor chemical recycling capacity development, evaluate technology investment options, and plan for compliance with recycled content mandates.
Investors and infrastructure funds
Screen circular economy infrastructure investments by technology readiness, regulatory support, feedstock security, and off-take commitments. Assess the long-term policy trajectory creating structural demand for circular infrastructure.
Consumer goods companies and brand owners
Monitor recycled material supply development, track availability of food-grade recycled plastics, assess supplier capabilities for recycled content commitments, and evaluate the Scope 3 emissions impact of circular procurement strategies.