ISCC PLUS CERTIFICATION FOR CIRCULAR MATERIALS & CHEMICAL RECYCLING

Klean Industries develops chemical recycling, resource recovery and waste-to-value projects with the traceability, chain-of-custody and sustainability requirements needed to pursue applicable ISCC PLUS certification.

ISCC PLUS supports circular and bio-based supply chains through recognized chain-of-custody methods including physical segregation, controlled blending and mass balance.

For Klean projects, this can be particularly relevant to waste-derived oils, recycled hydrocarbons, circular chemicals, tire pyrolysis oil, recovered carbon materials and other products entering downstream industrial markets.

Why ISCC PLUS Matters

For many circular-economy projects, sustainability certification is increasingly linked to commercial acceptance.

Customers, refiners, chemical producers and industrial manufacturers may require verified documentation showing how alternative feedstocks enter the supply chain, how they are processed and how sustainability characteristics are attributed to final products.

ISCC PLUS provides a structured framework for this traceability and independent verification.

Mass Balance & Chain of Custody

Mass balance is particularly important where recycled and conventional materials are processed within the same industrial system.

Certified quantities and sustainability characteristics can be tracked through controlled accounting while materials move through existing refineries, chemical plants and manufacturing infrastructure.

This allows circular feedstocks to integrate into large-scale industrial supply chains without requiring complete physical segregation.

ISCC PLUS & Chemical Recycling

For chemical recycling projects, certification can help establish:

  • feedstock traceability;
  • chain-of-custody controls;
  • mass-balance accounting;
  • verified sustainability characteristics;
  • product claims; and
  • supply-chain transparency.

These requirements are especially important where waste-derived feedstocks are intended to re-enter refinery, chemical or manufacturing value chains.

Designing for Certification Readiness

Certification should not be treated as something added after a plant is operating.

Klean considers certification requirements during project development so that feedstock documentation, process design, material accounting, product pathways, traceability systems and operating procedures can support the intended certification strategy from the beginning.

Certification itself is independently assessed and issued by the applicable certification body.

Relevant Circular Products

ISCC PLUS can be relevant to projects producing or handling:

  • waste-derived oils and hydrocarbons;
  • chemical-recycling feedstocks;
  • tire pyrolysis oil;
  • recovered carbon materials;
  • circular chemicals; and
  • other recycled or renewable industrial feedstocks.

The applicable certification scope depends on the feedstock, process, facility, final product and target market.

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Developing a Circular Materials or Chemical Recycling Project?

Klean Industries works with project developers, industrial companies and investors to define the feedstock, technology, product pathways, traceability requirements and commercial structure needed to develop viable circular-economy infrastructure.

Where ISCC PLUS certification is relevant, Klean can help structure projects with certification readiness in mind from the earliest stages of development.

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