ScrapAd is a global digital marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of scrap and recyclable metals. The platform provides company verification, secure payments (including advance payments), logistics management, and a mobile app to facilitate international transactions for the metals recycling industry.

Circularity Relevance

Core
ScrapAd is explicitly positioned as a marketplace for recyclable metals and describes activities (material exchange, verification, logistics) that directly support material recovery and circular flows. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Circular Role

DirectEnabler
ScrapAd directly hosts listings and facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers of scrap metals (marketplace functionality) and manages parts of the flow (verification, payments, logistics). Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Circular Type

Marketplace
Materials
B2B
ScrapAd is a marketplace for scrap and recyclable metals (materials). The platform targets companies in the metals recycling industry (buyers and sellers are businesses) and provides listing and transaction services via marketplace.scrapad.com and mobile apps. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

R Strategy

R8 - Recycle, R3 - Reuse
Primary: platform facilitates recycling and resource recovery of scrap metals (explicit site emphasis on recycling). Secondary: also enables reuse/resale-type exchanges between industry actors (inferred from marketplace transaction functionality). Primary selection is supported by explicit language; the secondary classification is an interpretation of marketplace resale capabilities. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Circular Business Model

Recycling / Resource Recovery, Circular Logistics
The platform's core activity is facilitating material exchanges for recycling (Recycling / Resource Recovery). The site also states that ScrapAd manages logistics and collection/delivery of material, supporting circular logistics. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Organisational Type

ForProfit
Footer identifies the legal entity as 'Samoving, S.L.' (a Spanish limited company) and the site references commercial services; also lists corporate contacts and funding programmes. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Sector

Waste Management & Recycling
Website describes ScrapAd as a platform for buying and selling scrap and recyclable metals and positions itself as a leader in the metal recycling industry. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Geographical Reach

Global
Spain
Site states the platform operates in more than 45 countries and calls itself a global platform. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Hardware Component

None
No evidence that specialised physical hardware (IoT sensors, robotics, industrial systems) is required to use the platform; mobile apps exist but these are software clients rather than hardware enablers. Source: ScrapAd, 2025

Tech Map Relevance

ScrapAd is a digital marketplace for scrap and recyclable metals (explicit on company website) and therefore meets inclusion criteria for the Circular Tech Map as a core circular-materials marketplace. Source: ScrapAd, 2025 Source: LinkedIn

Enablers are initially categorised by an AI agent, then verified by a real human.
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Added: 18 Mar 2024
Updated: 11 Sept 2025
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