Makersite launches recycled content calculator for product manufacturers

Makersite, a Stuttgart, Germany-based international software as a service (SaaS) platform offering product lifecycle intelligence for manufacturing teams, has announced the launch of an app to help companies calculate and report the amount of recycled content in their products.

Makersite says the new capability leverages its global supply chain data and works within the existing platform, making the compliance process accessible, efficient and accurate for modern global regulations including the EU Green Deal initiative, the Packaged Product Waste Regulations (PPWR) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

According to the company, the process of reporting and identifying recycled content in manufacturing products traditionally has been fraught with complexity and guesswork, involving an audit of legal compliance, supplier verification and validation, material due diligence procedures and minimum recycled content criteria. Often, Makersite claims, product teams lack the data needed to accurately report and rely on their biggest suppliers for confidential materials and process information. Aggregating this data for complex products, sometimes containing hundreds of raw materials, is now simpler.

Makersite’s new application and database are designed to transform the data aggregation entirely, it says. With access to over 140 data sources, the company says it streamlines the process using artificial intelligence and automation, ensuring accurate calculation, verification and reporting of recycled content within manufactured products. This new capability, coupled with Makersite’s existing scope 3 and automated LCA solutions, is meant to simplify the journey toward sustainability practices and allows organizations to ensure they are not just a strategic goal, but an operational reality for product teams in the U.S. and abroad.

“Around the world, governments are implementing recycled content requirements in order to meet their decarbonization and waste reduction goals,” Makersite founder and CEO Neil D’Souza says. “Unfortunately, very few companies have the ability to reliably measure and report on the recycled content of their products. You cannot manage what you can’t measure. Our new capability will enable procurement, compliance and sustainability practitioners to confidently report the amount of recycled content in their products, saving time and resources while ensuring the highest degree of accuracy.”

The company says this new feature promotes continuous improvement of recycled materials, incentivizes innovation in material recycling processes and aims to minimize waste sent to landfills. By utilizing AI and automation, the company says it is supporting numerous international brands including Microsoft, Cummins, Vestas and Barco in the development of a more sustainable and responsible manufacturing industry.

Makersite was founded in 2018 and has over 60 employees, comprised of data scientists and sustainability, cost and compliance experts across Europe and North America.