American Marconi Wireless News - SMX and REDWAVE Intend to Replace Recycling's Missing Link: Trust (NASDAQ:SMX)

This is not another recycling press release about bottles, bins, and municipal feel-good projects. This is about embedding proof into every piece of plastic and attaching real economic weight to every cycle of reuse. SMX has the molecular magic, REDWAVE has the high-speed muscle, and together they are turning recycling into the next great industrial play.

Here is the trick. SMX can tag materials at the sub-molecular level with invisible markers that cannot be forged or faked. Those markers link directly to a blockchain-backed digital passport that follows the plastic everywhere it goes. No more paperwork, no more trust-me certifications. Proof becomes inseparable from the product itself.

A Bold One-Two Recycling Punch

REDWAVE's platforms are already the backbone of sorting lines around the world. Their machines separate waste streams at lightning speed. But until now, those streams often left the plant with a question mark stamped on them. Mix-ups, mislabels, and greenwashing have all thrived in the gaps. By integrating SMX's markers into REDWAVE's systems, items sliding across a belt can now be detected, sorted, and certified in one motion. The result is not questionable bales of recycled plastic. The result is certified commodities, as tradable and tangible as copper or steel.

And this is where things get even more interesting. Once those materials are verified, SMX's Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) takes the baton. Certified recycled plastic is no longer just inventory. It becomes a digital asset that can be monetized and traded. Governments get enforcement tools with financial teeth. Companies gain pricing power. Stakeholders get exposure to an entirely new asset class built on the circular economy. Waste turns into wealth, and the factory floor becomes a mint.

A Pivotal Step Forward for Recycling Verification

SMX called this partnership a pivotal step, and it is easy to see why. When you start talking about setting global standards for certified recycling, you are no longer tinkering with compliance. You are deciding how industries define value and how markets measure success. That is the kind of leverage industrial revolutions are built on.

REDWAVE's machines have always been about efficiency. Now, with SMX's molecular traceability layered in, efficiency becomes trust. And trust is what finally makes circularity bankable.

The LOI sets the path forward: joint deployments, integrated systems, and benchmarks that other regions will be forced to recognize. If anyone doubts where this is heading, just look at Singapore. Its plastics passport initiative with SMX started as a pilot and quickly became a national model. Europe is now preparing to follow suit, with REDWAVE as the industrial partner on the ground.

Recycling has waited a long time to graduate from side hustle to main stage. With this planned partnership, it finally has its ticket. Conveyor belts will no longer just be shuttling waste from pile to pile. They will deliver certified, traceable, tradable commodities. That is not recycling as an afterthought. That is recycling as the next global market.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

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M.Thompson--AMWN