Critical Minerals Infrastructure
for the energy transition.
PlanetLoop operates the infrastructure that identifies, traces, and recovers the lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and rare earths already inside the economy — beginning with the UK NHS estate, expanding through the EU compliance window.
Not a platform. Infrastructure.
We are the operating layer between deployed devices and recovered materials. Three functions, one continuous record, audit-grade by design.
What's inside
Every end-of-life device entering the loop is characterised at the unit level: device class, age, condition, and an estimate of the critical minerals it contains, sourced from teardown reference data and our own pilot record.
Chain of custody
Auditable provenance from the moment a device leaves a customer estate to the moment a recovered material reaches a downstream buyer. NHS Information Governance grade. CESG-aligned data destruction.
Routed to best use
Every device routed by value — reuse, refurbishment, parts harvesting, materials recovery — through accredited operating partners. Evidence flows back to the customer in a single audit-grade report.
“Critical Minerals Infrastructure is the layer that identifies, traces, and recovers the lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and rare earths already inside the economy — and PlanetLoop operates it.”
A category that exists in policy.
An industry that does not yet exist.
Four converging commitments define the operating window. PlanetLoop operates the infrastructure that delivers them.
UK Vision 2035 Critical Minerals Strategy
UK government commits to meeting 20% of annual critical mineral demand through recycling by 2035, against a baseline of less than 1% today. Vision 2035 names recycled sources as a significant supply contributor from 2030.
EU Critical Raw Materials Act
Binding EU-wide reporting, recycling, and supply diversification targets phase in across the 2026–2030 window. Enterprises operating in the EU will face explicit obligations to account for critical minerals in their device estates.
NHS Net Zero Supplier Roadmap
NHS suppliers must report and reduce carbon emissions on a defined timeline from 2027. Trusts have published Green Plans with named procurement budgets. The buying motion exists today.
Digital Product Passport regulation
EU Digital Product Passport regulation will require product-level material and provenance data across affected categories. UK alignment likely. PlanetLoop is the operating system on which device-level material data is generated and reported.
Five audiences. One operating system.
PlanetLoop speaks to five stakeholders in their own register. The category is the same; the framing is calibrated to what each must achieve.
Policymakers & civil servants
The infrastructure that delivers the Vision 2035 recycling target — operated by the private sector, evidenced through audit-grade reporting, aligned with national industrial strategy.
Chief Sustainability Officers
Audit-grade evidence at device and material level. The documentation your regulators and auditors are about to ask for, against CRMA and Digital Product Passport timelines.
Enterprise IT & procurement
One contract covers collection, IG-grade chain of custody, recovery routing, data destruction, value return, and compliance evidence. Disposal becomes an asset recovery exercise.
Climate & infrastructure investors
A metered infrastructure business with policy tailwinds and a defensible data layer. Gram-level unit economics. A ten-year category ceiling we are building first.
Analysts & journalists
A category that exists in government policy and does not yet exist as an industry. Critical Minerals Infrastructure — the missing operating layer of the energy transition's material side.
The operating data compounds.
Every device processed produces a record. Every recovered material has named provenance. Every claim is traceable to evidence. We are an evidence company before we are a software company.
Anchor pilot: a large UK NHS Trust, ≥500 devices over six months, six measured outcomes from volume processed through to compliance evidence. Reference architecture, pricing, and Information Governance handling available on request.
Request the pilot architectureWe argue in the open for the category.
Category creation is an act of repetition. We publish — in consultations, in trade-association papers, in mainstream press — because Critical Minerals Infrastructure needs vernacular before it can be funded at scale.
Critical Minerals Association UK
Member. Recovery and infrastructure voice within a coalition currently dominated by extractors and processors.
APPG on Critical Minerals
Briefing on critical-minerals recovery as the missing infrastructure layer of the Vision 2035 strategy's 20% target.
Defra Circular Economy Growth Plan
Response submitted: the case for adding critical-minerals-bearing electronics as a priority sector in the published plan.
UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre
Aligning pilot methodology with the criticality assessment framework operated by BGS-hosted CMIC.
We are operators, not advocates.
We are infrastructure, not a movement.
The energy transition has a movement problem and an infrastructure problem. The movement is loud and necessary. The infrastructure is quiet and missing. We are building the infrastructure.
We measure in grams. We name materials by their elements. We cite policy documents by their titles. We do not call ourselves AI-powered, we do not promise to disrupt the e-waste industry, and we do not sell sustainability narratives. We deliver evidence.
If you are inside a department that has committed to a critical minerals target it does not yet know how to deliver, inside an enterprise that will need to evidence Scope 3 material flows it cannot currently see, or inside a fund underwriting infrastructure businesses with policy tailwinds — speak to us.