Plastship is a European trading and services platform for recycled plastics, providing a material database, procurement and distribution, material-quality analyses, design-for-recycling support and waste‑stream management to increase recycled-content use.

Circularity Relevance

Core
Platform explicitly facilitates the trade, quality assurance and redistribution of recycled plastics and provides services to close plastic loops, which are central circular-economy activities. Source: plastship, 2025

Circular Role

DirectEnabler
Operates a marketplace/database and directly coordinates procurement, distribution and services for recycled plastics, acting directly in material flows rather than only supplying software. Source: plastship, 2025

Circular Type

Marketplace
Materials
Services
B2B
Plastship functions as a B2B marketplace and service platform for recycled plastic materials and related services (material database, procurement and consulting). Source: plastship, 2025

R Strategy

R8 - Recycle, R2 - Reduce, R3 - Reuse
Primary evidence shows facilitation of recycled-material supply and reintegration into production (R8: Recycle). Site also highlights design-for-recycling and material‑efficiency services supporting R2 (Reduce) and activities that can enable reuse/redistribution (R3). Source: plastship, 2025

Circular Business Model

Recycling / Resource Recovery, Circular Logistics
Offers procurement and distribution of rezyklates, material databases and organisation of waste/material flows - aligning with recycling/resource recovery and circular logistics. Source: plastship, 2025

Organisational Type

ForProfit
Identified as plastship GmbH (a GmbH is a private, for‑profit company) and as a subsidiary of RIGK GmbH. Source: plastship, 2025

Sector

Waste Management & Recycling, Chemicals & Materials
Website emphasises recycling, procurement and distribution of plastic rezyklates and cooperation with recycling industry initiatives, supporting both waste/recycling and materials use contexts. Source: plastship, 2025

Geographical Reach

International
Germany
Site describes plastship as a European procurement and recycling network and references EU/European partnerships and markets. Source: plastship, 2025

Hardware Component

None
No evidence that plastship supplies, installs or depends on specialised hardware; services are digital (database, marketplace, consulting). Source: plastship, 2025

Tech Map Relevance

Plastship operates a European marketplace and service platform specifically for recycled plastics, directly enabling circular material flows; therefore it meets inclusion criteria for the Circular Tech Map. Source: plastship, 2025

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Added: 18 Mar 2024
Updated: 21 Oct 2025