GreenBlue Integrates Recycled Materials Registry with Xpansiv Connect™ to Expand Global Reach
• Integration will streamline access to RMS ARC credits from Xpansiv Connect’s global network
• Xpansiv Connect enables RMS account holders to manage their ARC portfolio and positions on 15 other leading carbon and REC registries from a single screen
NEW YORK, LONDON, SYDNEY — November 19, 2025— Xpansiv, the leading infrastructure provider for the global energy transition markets, and GreenBlue, an environmental nonprofit with a mission to accelerate the transition to a regenerative, just, and sustainable materials economy, today announced that the latter’s Recycled Material Standard ARC certificate registry is now integrated with the Xpansiv Connect portfolio management system. The integration streamlines portfolio management of RMS-issued Attributes of Recycled Content (ARC) certificates and makes the instruments more readily available to Xpansiv Connect’s global user base.
The RMS-Xpansiv Connect integration supports a Recycled Material Standard initiative to expand the universe of ARC buyers beyond its traditional customer base of plastic producers, recyclers, and product and packaging manufacturers. ARC certificates, based on the ISO-defined book-and-claim accounting method, can be used by consumer packaged goods companies, online and brick-and-mortar retailers and other businesses that sell plastic products or use plastic packaging within their value chain to address their environmental impact.
Additionally, companies can use ARCs in their Scope 3 emissions programs. Specifically, the instruments can be used to validate additional recycling, providing data-backed emissions reductions from end-of-life treatment of sold products, as defined in Category 12 of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and referenced in the Science-Based Target Initiative.
“ARCs serve a similar role in environmental commodity portfolios to renewable energy certificates, and enable companies to fund external recycling programs to account for plastic waste in their value chains,” said Elizabeth Ritch, Senior Manager of the Recycled Material Standard, GreenBlue. “Adding the RMS registry to Xpansiv Connect’s unparalleled network of integrated registries is an important step to make ARCs available to a wider user base in the global sustainability community.”
Veritiv, a full-service packaging provider, began purchasing ARCs two years ago.
“We realized that by introducing ARCs, we could support North American recycling infrastructure and take a new approach to improving the environmental impact of the packaging products we distribute,” said Martha Issa, Vice President of Quality and Corporate Responsibility, Veritiv. “ARCs were a good first step to invest in existing facilities, even if it’s indirectly, and that helped us advance our circularity and recycled plastic goals.”
The ARC credit system lets participants sell credits representing the environmental benefit of one metric ton of plastic that has been diverted from landfills and reprocessed into inputs for new manufacturing processes.
Xpansiv Connect is the preeminent portfolio management system in the environmental commodity markets. It is integrated with 15 leading carbon and renewable energy registries currently and used to transfer approximately one billion assets annually. The portfolio management system is a central component of Xpansiv’s end-to-end technology infrastructure, which supports proprietary and third-party registries, exchanges, and other environmental commodity market platforms and solutions.
Xpansiv also operates the registry platforms for a range of top voluntary carbon, renewable energy, and recycled material standards. GreenBlue’s Recycled Material Standard ARC certificate registry runs on Xpansiv’s secure, fully digital registry platform.
“We believe market-based mechanisms, including those in new asset classes like recycled materials, are indispensable tools in company sustainability programs,” said Russell Karas, Senior Vice President, Strategic Market Solutions, Xpansiv. “We are pleased to welcome GreenBlue’s RMS registry to the Xpansiv Connect ecosystem, where its recycled material certificates will be available alongside voluntary and compliance renewable, carbon, and alternative fuel credits from leading global registries.”
About GreenBlue
GreenBlue is an environmental nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the transition to a regenerative, just, and sustainable materials economy. GreenBlue is the parent nonprofit of seven projects, including The Sustainable Packaging Coalition, How2Recycle, and The Recycled Material Standard. Through these projects and their hundreds of members, GreenBlue strives to be the most reliable and accurate source of truth compelling the packaging value chain to construct environmentally regenerative, socially responsible systems.
Learn more at https://greenblue.org/.
About The Recycled Material Standard
The Recycled Material Standard is a universal third-party certification dedicated to ensuring that recycled materials are verified, traceable, and scalable for real-world adoption. By connecting stakeholders across the value chain under one system, the Recycled Material Standard equips brands and suppliers with clear, credible tools to build a stronger and more transparent recycled materials market. The Recycled Material Standard is a project of the environmental nonprofit GreenBlue, which also houses projects like the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and How2Recycle.
Learn more at https://www.rmscertified.com/
About Xpansiv
Xpansiv operates the technology infrastructure to accelerate the world’s energy transition. The company runs the largest spot exchange for environmental commodities, including carbon credits and renewable energy certificates. It is the premier provider of registry infrastructure for energy, power, and environmental markets. It operates the largest independent platform for managing and selling solar renewable energy credits in North America.
It also runs Xpansiv Connect™, the leading multi-registry, multi-asset environmental portfolio management system, as well as a premier market data service for the environmental and energy commodities markets. The company is a leading provider of transaction and advisory services in global carbon, renewable energy, and energy transition markets through its Evolution Markets and Carbon Financial Services units.
Xpansiv’s rules-based markets and infrastructure enable stakeholders to deliver transparent, credible, and auditable environmental claims to address the growing global demand for assurance and accountability on climate action and sustainability performance.
Company investors include Blackstone Group, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Aramco Ventures, Macquarie Group Ltd., S&P Global Ventures, Aware Super, BP Ventures, Commonwealth Bank, and the Australian Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
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