**Company News | Ningbo Topcentral New Material Co., Ltd. Honored with Sedex Supply Chain Award Nomination**
Recently, Sedex, a globally recognized sustainable and responsible supply chain organization, announced the nomination list for the 2025 Sedex Supply Chain Awards. Ningbo Topcentral New Material Co., Ltd. has been successfully shortlisted for the “Environmental Contribution Award” nomination.
**Sedex Supply Chain Awards**
The Sedex Supply Chain Awards aim to recognize and encourage the contributions and innovations of enterprises, institutions, and individuals in the environmental and social aspects of the supply chain. As a flagship global award in the supply chain dimension, the Sedex Supply Chain Awards focus more on local and multinational enterprises operating in China (including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions), providing a platform for buyers, suppliers, and individuals to showcase best practices. The goal is to establish benchmarks for sustainable and responsible supply chains, promote cooperation and co-construction among stakeholders in the supply chain, and enhance the positive influence of enterprises and individuals in the field of sustainable development.
The Environmental Contribution Award, for which Topcentral has been shortlisted, aims to recognize and encourage the contributions and innovations of enterprises, institutions, and individuals in the environmental and social aspects of the supply chain.
In alignment with the sustainable development or ESG strategies and objectives for this award, the focus is on the synergistic improvement of environmental benefits, social value, and governance capabilities:
**Building a Circular Economy Closed Loop**
Topcentral continuously enhances recycling efficiency through sustained technological R&D innovation and optimized sorting processes, minimizing reliance on virgin plastics. This further enables the full lifecycle circular development of all products, ensuring that the carbon emissions generated per ton of recycled material during production are reduced by more than 80% compared to virgin materials.
**Establishing a Collaborative Recycling Network**
By leveraging blockchain technology, Topcentral has established the “Beisu” full-process digital traceability platform, enabling the traceability and identification of waste plastic source information. This creates a closed-loop digital intelligent innovation platform and management system for the entire industry chain of “collection – transportation – disposal – recycling – high-value application” for waste plastic recycling. Through the recycling and utilization of waste plastics and other resources, as well as public welfare eco-tourism initiatives, the company has generated revenue, providing hundreds of jobs to date, with fishermen able to increase their annual income by nearly RMB 10,000.
**III. Establishing a Full Lifecycle Traceability System for Transparency in Raw Material Sources, Production Processes, and Carbon Emission Data**
**IV. Deeply Aligning with the National “14th Five-Year Plan” Circular Economy Development Requirements for “Whole-Chain Plastic Pollution Control”**
To achieve environmental sustainability, Topcentral adheres to the “Sustainable” business philosophy and has formulated five major development strategies: Environmental Protection and Governance, Resource Recovery and Reuse, Technological Innovation and Support, Publicity and Social Participation, and International Cooperation and Exchange.
By developing and applying green, low-carbon, and environmentally friendly material technologies, and conducting carbon emission inventories and carbon footprint certifications, the company achieves environmental protection and carbon emission reduction targets. Through circular technology innovation, Topcentral realizes the functional closed-loop recycling of waste marine plastics, building a circular economy model that transforms waste into useful resources. This achieves resource conservation and reuse, reduces oil extraction, the use of virgin plastics, and negative environmental impacts, promoting sustainable environmental development. The closed-loop digital intelligent innovation platform model for the entire industry chain of marine waste plastic recycling encourages and guides citizens towards environmental protection by awarding carbon credits for depositing waste plastics, which can be exchanged for prizes.
Simultaneously, by constructing a CBAM closed-loop system for CCER/CER global and China-specific marine carbon reduction projects, Topcentral collaborates with global authoritative institutions such as TUV, UL, and the National Standards Committee to further promote the establishment of various standards and solutions for closed-loop marine pollution control. This effectively addresses the pain points of difficult collection, high-value utilization, and multi-stakeholder governance of marine plastic waste, building a virtuous “Blue Cycle.”
Facing the new dynamics of global marine plastic waste management, China, as an advocate of the concept of a maritime community with a shared future, has successively issued the “Opinions on Further Strengthening Plastic Pollution Control” and the “14th Five-Year Plan” Action Plan for Plastic Pollution Control to tackle plastic pollution. Zhejiang Province deeply implements Xi Jinping’s ecological civilization thought, using the construction of ecological coastal zones and the protection of beautiful bays as a vehicle to build a marine plastic waste cleanup system and create a new model for marine plastic waste management. The Fenghua District, where Topcentral is located, has a coastline of 65 kilometers, 25 fishing boat docks, 963 registered fishing vessels, and nearly 10,000 fishery workers. Poor habits of fishermen during production operations have led to large amounts of white garbage and discarded aquaculture foam plastics accumulating in nearshore waters. This regional geographical environment and reality became the source for Topcentral’s creation of the “Ocean Partner” innovative marine pollution control ecosystem (hereinafter referred to as the “Ocean Partner” model).
“Ocean Partner” tackles the challenges of difficult marine waste collection and low recycling rates. By constructing an integrated mechanism combining waste reduction, intelligent monitoring, and value-added utilization, it achieves a sustainable long-term ecological value chain for the collection, transportation, sorting, recycling, deep processing, and high-value application of marine pollutants, thereby improving the quality of the marine ecological environment. Practiced since 2023, this model has now been in operation for two years.
**(I) Building a Circular Governance System: Transforming Waste from “Entering the Sea” to “Entering the Hold”**
Improving “Hold Storage” facilities. Adhering to “fixed-point recycling + on-site disposal,” streamlining “Hold Transportation” channels, and integrating “sorting + transfer.” Achieving “Hold Material” regeneration. Through plastic recycling and regeneration technologies and processes, waste plastics are transformed into recycled plastic pellets, realizing high-value utilization of waste plastics.
**(II) Building a Digital Supervision System: Transforming Waste Management from “Human Prevention” to “Intelligent Control”**
Intelligently aggregating data from platforms such as “Zheli Huiyu” (Zhejiang Fishing Assistance) to achieve precise positioning of fishing vessels at sea. Developing an offshore recycling system and coding end products to enable full lifecycle visual traceability, creating a circular and sustainable industrial ecosystem.
**(III) Building a Partnership Protection System: Transforming Waste from “Production” to “Ecology”**
Launching a “Carbon Credit” inclusive platform. Through “Carbon Credits,” users can exchange for recycled products made from marine waste plastics, such as storage boxes and electric toothbrushes, at self-service machines, continuously motivating more people to join environmental protection efforts.
In April 2023, the “Ocean Partner” Eco-Cabin pilot was established in Fenghua District, Ningbo. Diversely promoting the “Marine Waste Plastic Treatment+” industry, integrating and developing a downstream industrial chain with the capability for high-value integration and digestion of marine waste plastics. To date, over 1,600 tons of marine waste plastics and a certain amount of waste oil-water mixtures have been recovered. Through deep processing and high-value application of waste plastics, the project achieves high-quality utilization across the entire product industry chain and a sustainable long-term ecological value chain. Since the creation of the first “Ocean Partner” Eco-Cabin in 2023, 11 sites have been deployed, covering coastal areas including Fenghua, Yinzhou, Ninghai, Cixi, and Xiangshan in Ningbo, as well as Shengsi in Zhoushan, realizing high-value utilization and re-processing of products for the market across the entire industry chain. Simultaneously, the project integrates a “Carbon Credit” and commercial innovation inclusive platform, converting plastic waste deposited by fishermen and the public into digital credits redeemable for goods. This builds an innovative ecological model of sustainable resource recycling and carbon neutrality involving all of humanity and the entire ecosystem. By combining marine environmental protection actions with fishermen’s production and daily life, the project achieves a win-win situation for increasing fishermen’s income and protecting the ocean, promoting green development and rural revitalization in coastal areas.
This case has been included in the “Blue Cycle” experience of the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment for replication and promotion. The project was awarded the 2023 Best Practice Case for Zero-Waste Cities, designated as a summer practice base for Fenghua primary school students by the Education Bureau, and featured in special reports by domestic and international media including CCTV, Xinhua Net, China Environment News, and The Chemical Daily (Japan). In July 2025, Topcentral was invited to attend the Osaka World Expo in Japan to present and exchange insights as a representative typical case of marine pollution control from Ningbo.
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