Turning Plastic Waste Into Value: Why Our SGSValidation Matters More Than a Certificate

NILO has becomethe first company in Aotearoa New Zealand to be validated under the PlasticPollution Reduction Standard (PPRS), independently validated by SGS,the world’s leading testing and certification organisation.

On paper, it’sa certification. In reality, it’s a turning point - for our team, for ourtechnology, and for how the world thinks about plastic waste.

The problem isn’t plastic. It’s what we do with it.

Globally, less than 10% of plastic is ever recycled. The rest is landfilled, burned, or lost to the environment. We’ve normalised this as an unavoidable consequence of modern life, but it’s not. The issue isn’t that plastic is inherently bad; it’s that our systems for dealing with it are outdated, inefficient, and economically broken.

When we started NILO, we weren’t trying to build “another recycling company.” We we're trying to build a new materials pathway, one that treats plastic waste as a resource, not a liability.

Upcycling, not downcycling

Traditionalrecycling often turns plastic into lower-value products with limited marketdemand. That model can’t scale. So we built something different.

Our patentedtechnology converts hard-to-recycle plastic waste into a high-performance, no-addedformaldehyde industrial adhesive used in engineered wood-based panels. Itperforms as well as, and in some cases better than, conventional resins, whiledelivering a 50-70% lower carbon footprint.

We’renot turning waste into “something else.” We’re turning waste into something theworld actually needs.

Why the SGS validation matters

The SGSvalidation of the PCX Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard confirms threecritical things:

•      We prevent plastic from entering the environment

•      We support a verified circular materials economy

•      We can generate plastic avoidance credits,creating a new funding mechanism to scale waste recovery and pre-processing

For a cleantechcompany moving from R&D into commercial deployment, this kind ofindependent verification isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s essential. It builds trustwith partners, investors, regulators, and the global engineered-wood industry.

This works. This is real. This isscalable.

From New Zealand to the world

This milestonemarks the next phase of NILO’s journey, from a pioneering idea in Aotearoa toone of the world’s most advanced plastic-waste-to-product technologies.

We’re provingthat plastic waste can be transformed into value at an industrial scale. We’reproving that circularity can be commercially viable. And we’re proving thatclimate-positive materials don’t have to compromise on performance.

The future we’re building

Plastic wasteis not a problem we have to accept. It’s a resource we haven’t yet learned touse properly.

At NILO, we’rechanging that with science, technology, and a belief that the materials economyof the future will be circular, low-carbon, and regenerative by design.

And this validation is just the beginning.

🔗  Read the full SGS announcement - click here

Thank you tothe teams at SGS New Zealand and PCX Solutions for yourpartnership, rigour, and belief in what we’re building.

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