Collection begins inside a living tidal landscape.
The page establishes what is being protected before introducing material recovery.
Traceability route · first-route mandate · Sundarbans–Khulna corridor
Guard the river edge.Close the material route.
Safe coastal recovery, verified processor acceptance and transparent community settlement.
01 · The living edgeA tidal system.
A tidal system.
An unfinished material route.
Plastic reaches an ecologically sensitive network of rivers, creeks and mangrove edges. What can be safely recovered, accepted and sold remains unverified.
Recovered material has no durable value without acceptance.
A route must define safe categories, accepted weight, a commercial rate and a credible counterparty.
One attributable lot should close before assets scale.
One attributable lot tests custody, acceptance, sale and cooperative settlement as one transaction.
02 · The acceptance condition
The first buyer defines what enters the route.
The proposed cooperative should not collect indiscriminately and search for a buyer later. A processor-buyer must define the material category, contamination limit, minimum lot, accepted weight and rate before route assets are selected.
Material
Polymer or material category, condition, minimum lot and excluded waste.
Acceptance
Tare, contamination, accepted net weight, rejection and commercial rate.
Settlement
Receipt, invoicing, payment timing and a clear dispute process.
01Buyer specificationDefines what may enter the route.
02Accepted receiptConfirms commercial quantity and rate.
03Recorded settlementCloses the route visibly for members.
Counterparty to verify. PET and HDPE may be tested as candidate categories. No processor commitment or recoverable volume is claimed.
03 · River-to-market Atlas
From selected catchment to confirmed counterparty.
The Atlas uses district geometry for public orientation and an aggregated local lens. Collector and household locations remain private.
04 · Material custody
The Material Passport
One lot. Six custody decisions. The lot remains attributable from selected recovery to recorded cooperative settlement.
Choose a stage. Inspect the material, custodian, accepted weight and evidence created before the lot advances.
Material + lotCurrent custodianAccepted weightEvidence created
01 of 06 · Open the lot
Intercept
Open one attributable lot at a selected recovery area and record the collection group, window and gross material.
- Material and lot
- Lot SGC-01 · candidate recoverable plastic
- Current custodian
- Registered collection group
- Accepted net weight
- Not established at interception
- Evidence created
- Recovery area, collection window and gross weight
02 of 06 · Internal acceptance
Sort
Separate candidate material from contamination and excluded waste before transport value is assumed.
- Material and lot
- Category and condition classified
- Current custodian
- Community sorting operator
- Accepted net weight
- Gross minus tare, contamination and exclusions
- Evidence created
- Category, rejection reason and accepted net
03 of 06 · Custody handover
Consolidate
Create one labelled dispatch lot with recorded condition, outbound weight and responsible custodian.
- Material and lot
- Accepted material packed as one dispatch lot
- Current custodian
- Proposed cooperative operator
- Accepted net weight
- Outbound dispatch weight recorded
- Evidence created
- Lot ID, storage condition and handover record
04 of 06 · Processor acceptance
Receive
Record received weight, quality deductions, accepted weight and rate at the verified processor-buyer.
- Material and lot
- Processor receipt linked to SGC-01
- Current custodian
- Verified processor-buyer
- Accepted net weight
- Processor-confirmed commercial quantity
- Evidence created
- Receipt, deductions, acceptance and rate
Illustrative sale recordCounterparty to verify
Material sale · Lot SGC-01
- Accepted commercial quantity
- To be recorded
- Processor rate
- To be agreed
- Gross material revenue
- To be calculated
- Contracted service payment
- Separate, where applicable
- Settlement due date
- To be agreed
Accepted material becomes a documented commercial receipt.
05 of 06 · Commercial close
Sell
Convert processor acceptance into a clear sale record without mixing commodity revenue and any contracted service payment.
- Material and lot
- Accepted commercial quantity
- Current custodian
- Processor-buyer and cooperative accounts
- Accepted net weight
- Commercial quantity fixed
- Evidence created
- Receipt, rate, gross revenue and due date
Illustrative cooperative settlementRoute closed
Lot SGC-01 settled
- Gross recovered weight
- Recorded
- Accepted net weight
- Confirmed
- Processor revenue
- Recorded separately
- Route costs and reserve
- Disclosed
- Member payment pool
- Confirmed
- Payment date and reference
- Linked
Custody closes when accepted material becomes a recorded and understandable payment.
06 of 06 · Community settlement
Settle
Convert the cooperative receipt into visible route costs, reserve and member payment under agreed governance rules.
- Material and lot
- Lot SGC-01 closed
- Current custodian
- Cooperative governance and member accounts
- Accepted net weight
- Linked to the paid sale record
- Evidence created
- Settlement statement, date and payment reference
05 · Community record
A settlement the community can audit.
The cooperative should be able to follow gross recovery, rejected material, accepted net weight, processor revenue, route costs, reserve and member payment.
Gross materialRecorded
Contamination and rejectionVisible
Accepted net weightConfirmed
Material and service revenueSeparated
Route costs and reserveDisclosed
Member paymentConfirmed
06 · Capital release
The asset follows the evidence.
Use the evidence tide gate to test the minimum conditions for capital release. The default position remains hold. This instrument illustrates the decision rule; it does not report current project readiness.
Evidence tide gate
0 / 4 gates
Each verified condition raises the evidence level. Capital becomes eligible for release review only when all four gates are complete.
Preparation and trial lots
Fund field measurement, community and operator preparation, safeguards, processor verification, trial lots and commercial modelling.
Assets and public claims
Hold permanent hubs, heavy equipment, fleet commitments, scaling and environmental claims while evidence remains incomplete.
Only after all four gates
Completion makes capital eligible for a documented release decision. It does not make release automatic.
No accepted lot.
No asset release.
No asset release.
No asset is released until one identified material lot reaches processor acceptance, completed sale and recorded cooperative settlement.
Evidence and imagery
Environmental context includes supplied representative Sundarbans imagery. The page uses representative context, supplied illustrative concept visuals and illustrative transaction records; none of these images proves a project site, workforce, processor or buyer. Contextual evidence: 2023 Sundarbans microplastics study; Department of Environment rules library; draft EPR guidelines notice. No local volume, income, yield or processor commitment is claimed.
First-buyer route unresolved · Current decision
Validate one accepted and settled lot before asset release.
Define the catchment, material rules, operator, processor terms, buyer route and community settlement record.