CircularOS.

CircularOS is the industrial circular economy agent in CarbonOS, Carbonova’s platform of AI agents. It finds waste, by-products and surplus materials that could become inputs (Material Scout), checks with SpecMatch AI whether a material meets the buyer’s technical specification, tracks waste manifests, permits and licences, and optimises routes and loads for reverse logistics. Circularity and zero-landfill indicators sit on the same dashboard.

It serves plants that generate waste and by-products and pay to dispose of them, and buyers looking for secondary raw materials with a proven specification. It is designed for plant managers and for the procurement, environmental and sustainability teams of process industries. The problem is an information gap: the material exists, but nobody knows where it is, whether it meets the spec, whether its movement is compliant and what it costs to ship.

It works in three steps. Material Scout maps available material streams inside and outside your value chain; SpecMatch compares each material’s technical specifications with the buyer’s requirements and flags technical and waste-compliance fit; and the logistics module plans routes and consolidates loads, with a PoC Wizard to test each stream. The data comes from waste inventories, manifests, lab reports and data sheets, supplier records and transport systems.

Under the Waste Framework Directive, a production residue is a by-product, not waste, if four conditions are all met: its further use is certain, it can be used directly without processing beyond normal industrial practice, it is produced as an integral part of a production process and its further use is lawful. Waste follows the hierarchy of prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, other recovery and disposal. CircularOS documents the specifications, destinations and permits that those rules rely on.

CircularOS works on the same data as the rest of CarbonOS. Signal Ingest brings in data from ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle and from transport systems; Supply Chain carries suppliers and logistics emissions into Scope 3; Carbon Intelligence accounts for waste emissions in the GHG Protocol inventory; and Proof Engine keeps the lineage of every number. The effect of each tonne diverted from landfill then shows up in the carbon inventory as well.

It starts from data the plant already has: its waste inventory, manifests, permits and the specifications of the inputs it buys. In a guided 30-minute demo, a specialist walks through an initial diagnosis; then Material Scout points to the streams with the most potential, SpecMatch qualifies the candidates and the PoC Wizard sets up a proof of concept one stream at a time. Decisions on each material, and the permits it needs, stay with the plant and its regulator.