The Washington Materials Marketplace aims to create a collaborative network of businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs where one organization’s hard-to-recycle waste and by-products becomes another organization’s raw material. In addition to diverting waste from landfills, these recovery activities generate significant cost savings, energy savings, and create new jobs and business opportunities.
The Washington Materials Marketplace is led and supported by:
The Washington Materials Marketplace is business-led, actively facilitated, and technology enabled.
Business Led
The Materials Marketplace gives manufacturers practical ways to save money, improve supply chain resilience and generate value through reusable materials. Over 2,700 businesses - large and small - are using the Materials Marketplace across North America.
Technology Enabled
The Marketplace uses a secure online platform, the Rheaply Resource Exchange Platform, for locating, and exchanging materials in a connected reuse network. And it works on all your devices.
Actively Facilitated
Questions about setting up a listing for success and maximum exposure? Need assistance getting in touch with another user or have a transaction that stalls out? The program team is a few clicks away to offer guidance and assistance.
Easy to Get Started
Participation is free and open to any company or organization in Washington to join. Creating an account only takes a few minutes, and you can browse and add material listings immediately after.
Economic and Environmental Impact
The Washington Materials Marketplace program breaks down barriers to cross-industry collaboration and helps companies identify opportunities to minimize waste, find new customers, and drive high-value business relationships.
The Materials Marketplace creates measurable economic, greenhouse gas, environmental and social impact.
Benefit from significant economic savings by sourcing cheaper feedstocks from industrial by-products and recycled materials, as well as reduce landfill disposal fees.
Material production and use comprises 42 percent of system-wide GHG emissions in the U.S. Materials reuse is a proven strategy to reduce your company's carbon footprint.
Globally, the circular economy is a trillion dollar opportunity, and is poised to create a large number of new jobs in an emerging sector. The marketplace can help stimulate this job growth in Washington.
In addition to GHG reductions, the Materials Marketplace can create additional positive environmental impacts through better and more efficient use of materials.
Who’s Involved
Over 2,700 large and small businesses, organizations and state/local government agencies are engaged in the Materials Marketplace today. See below for a quick overview of our participants.
Our Users
Materials Marketplace users represent businesses and organizations at every stage of the circular economy - from collection and processing to manufacturers making new goods with recycled materials. The Materials Marketplace can be used as tool for companies to explore real-time data on waste and by-product materials and make decisions on infrastructure and process investments; or as a tool to help find new solutions for hard-to-recycle materials.
Recycling Sector
Recycling companies are using the Materials Marketplace to identify new customers and new buyers for collected/processed material. If you’re considering making a new infrastructure investment, opening up a service offering for a new material, or need to do additional research before accepting a customer material - use the Materials Marketplace to identify and test the appetite for specific end-markets before making any commitments.
Manufacturing Sector
Manufacturers can use the Materials Marketplace to find new solutions for challenging waste and by-product materials, and to source recycled feedstocks to help reach recycled content and sustainability goals. Transactions facilitated by the Materials Marketplace are measurable and tracked - in addition to diverting waste from landfill, these activities often generate significant cost savings, energy savings, and create new jobs and business opportunities.
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs can use the Materials Marketplace to find suitable materials and innovate to build new reuse and recycling businesses. Access to regional economic development agencies and supporting organizations gives Marketplace users a unique connection to resources to explore new business opportunities in the reuse and recycling space. Lets see what we can build together.
How it works and how to join
The Materials Marketplace enables participants to easily share details on materials available or desired, identify reuse opportunities, and exchange underutilized materials. Over 2,700 companies - large and small - academic institutions, non-profits and entrepreneurs are using the Materials Marketplace around the world.
