THE MOST VALUABLE MATCH

Our digital matching platform finds new high-value reuse options for your materials or (waste) products. We give a powerful boost to your circular ambitions. And guarantee you: a smaller ecological footprint and greater financial value can simply go together.
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Excess Materials Exchange (EME) is a young and innovative technology company. On our digital matching platform, we find new high-value reuse options for materials or (waste) products for companies. Far too many valuable resources and materials are wasted or ill-designed in the current paradigm, for which the planet must pay a heavy price. Isn’t that a waste?
EME is determined to accelerate the global transition to a circular economy – and play a part in creating a more viable planet. By showing the financial and ecological value of materials. By challenging companies to design and produce their goods in a more efficient and circular manner. And by making matches. A whole lot of matches.

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EME can help you realise your circular ambitions and bring you financial as well as environmental benefits.

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Unlock value with the EME Quick scan

Do you want to know if you get the most out of your company’s materials, products and waste streams? We know from experience that there is a lot of financial and ecological value to be gained. But you want certainty. And proof. We can give you that within 5 business days. We map a specific material, product or waste stream for you. And answer your questions whether you lose money and can save on CO2 emissions.

Sign up for a Quick Scan via our platform.

Read more about the Quick Scan in our brochure.

Speed up your circular journey with 4D Matchmaking

Society and the planet need companies to take significant steps toward circularity. With our 4D Matchmaking module, your company’s circular ambitions can rapidly become reality. Let us identify the financial and environmental value that can be derived from your materials, products and waste streams. Let us find you new high-value reuse options. And let us link you to the innovation partners within our network so that your materials or products really are reused.

Sign up for 4D Matchmaking via our platform.

Read more about the 4D Matchmaking in our brochure.

Internal Circular Marketplace

The Internal Circular Marketplace is a protected digital platform where supply and demand of materials, products or waste flows can meet. It is particularly suitable for companies with different locations, ports, airports, and industrial areas. Frequently in these organisations, used or written-off materials or products are not registered properly. This means you are missing a clear overview of your assets and materials, and are missing great opportunities to find new high-value reuse options for them.

The Internal Circular Marketplace gives a powerful boost to the realisation of your circular ambitions – and new revenue models may arise. Sounds great, doesn’t it?

Request a demo, or sign up, via the EME platform.

Read more about the Internal Circular Marketplace in our brochure.

Circular Procurement

We are all working toward creating a circular economy – an economic system in which waste doesn’t exist and raw materials and resources are used and reused in an optimal way. This often results in more local sourcing of your materials. During the Corona crisis, many organisations have witnessed first-hand how dependent they are on global supply chains. This dependency can jeopardize the continuity of your organisation. With more circular procurement, these potential risks are mitigated and your organisation is contributing to a resilient, circular economy. A win- win situation.

EME helps you in taking this step towards circular procurement of materials and products. With a guarantee that it’s just as easy.

Read more about Circular Procurement in our brochure.

Our Services

How we work

Our digital platform unlocks the maximum potential of your company’s materials, products and waste streams by matching them to their highest value uses. The best part about that? It’s better for your profits as well as the planet. In our experience, material flows increase by 110% on average in financial value, and the ecological footprint reduces by 60% on average. Four tools are instrumental to our method of working:

1. Resources Passport

The Resources Passport is a standardised and modular format to provide any material with an identity. This (digital) passport gives an insight into e.g. the composition, the origin, the toxicity or deconstructability of the material or product.

2. Tracking and Tracing

With tracking and tracing identifiers like barcodes, QR codes and chips, we effectively match physical materials to their digital twin the Resources Passport. This makes it possible to follow them throughout their life cycles.

3. Valuation

We quantify the financial, environmental and societal impact of materials, products and waste streams, enabling data-driven decision making between several next use options.

4. Matchmaking

We match the material, product or waste stream to a new high-value reuse option across industries, using a combination of Artificial Intelligence and human expertise.

Results of the pilot

Unlocked potential for 18 streams:
863,000
car rides from Amsterdam to Milan in carbon emissions reduction
64,000,000
financial value generated from exchanging the pilot materials
860
Olympic-size swimming pools of freshwater saved
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Examples

Tulip flower heads

The Netherlands is famous for its tulips. After flowering the tulip heads are cut off and wasted. Growers sometimes even pay to get rid of them. Yet, they are a valuable resource in other sectors. For example, they could be converted into pigments for paint. 800kg of pigment can be retrieved from from one hectare of land. This leads to a total market in the Netherlands of all tulip field of 1,5 trillion euros in pigments.

Vitens

Water company Vitens regularly received phone calls of users that their water was oddly colored. This was due to harmless (actually healthy) organic compounds. Yet color was more important to their customers, so Vitens filtered out the organic compounds and send this excess material stream to an incinerator. Costs: half a million annually, and a waste of valuable resources. They decided they could optimize this process. Within two years they refined their purification installation and now sell the salts and organic compounds with a big profit to various companies. They also sell the technology behind the new purification installation.

Fruitleather Rotterdam

Each year we throw away 1.3 billion tons of food. Currently 30% of the world's farmland is used to produce food that will be wasted. Moreover 10% of all greenhouse gasses in rich countries is emitted by producing food that will never be eaten. The design duo Fruitleather Rotterdam transforms fruit into sustainable leather like material strong enough to be used in shoes, bags and other products.

Closing the Loop

Closing the Loop buys your redundant IT hardware - and gives it a second life. Data-secure, easy and uniquely sustainable. They also collect and buy end-of-life mobile phones in emerging markets Africa and Asia. This social business leads to sustainable jobs, waste reduction and more recycling. With the help of their strategic partners, over 95% of the metals can be retrieved from the already collected 1 million scrap mobile phones.

Awards & Nominations

The Circulars
CE100
fd50
DJ100
Katerva
MIT35
Reboot the Future
Accenture
How we work

Excess Materials Exchange Demo

The demo consists of a 30 minute video call. It allows you to get an inside look at the marketplace and its functionality. We’re also happy to answer any questions specific to your organisation. Please provide us with some additional information and our team will be in touch shortly with scheduling options.