Battery EPR credits, backed by real recycling, not paper.
India’s Battery Waste Management Rules put an Extended Producer Responsibility obligation on every battery producer and importer — a share of what they sell has to come back for recycling every year. Circle8 helps producers meet that obligation with verified credits, and helps CPCB-registered recyclers turn the certificates their recycling generates into revenue.
- Verified against CPCB's SSO portal
- Traceable to a real recycling event
- 35-recycler network
- India-based team
Every battery producer carries a recycling obligation
Under India’s Battery Waste Management Rules, producers and importers — including PLI-backed cell manufacturers — must register on CPCB’s SSO portal and ensure a rising share of what they sell is collected and recycled each year. Falling short means either scrambling for certificates late, or facing non-compliance.
The obligation is real and annual
Producers, importers and brand owners of batteries carry an EPR target every year, tracked through CPCB's SSO portal — not a one-time registration exercise.
Certificates are how it's met
Recycling that happens through CPCB-registered recyclers generates EPR certificates. Producers meet their obligation by holding certificates equal to their target, whether from their own supply chain or acquired on the market.
Recyclers hold value they haven't realised
A CPCB-registered recycler generates certificates as a by-product of recycling it's already doing — but turning that into cash usually means finding a buyer, which isn't a recycler's core business.
Two sides of the same market
Circle8 sits between producers who need certificates and recyclers who generate them — the same bridge position we hold between recyclers and refiners on the material side.
Meet your obligation with verified credits
Whether you sell cells, packs, or import batteries, we help you close the gap between what your own supply chain recycles and what your annual target requires.
- Sourcing: verified EPR certificates matched to your obligation, sourced from our recycler network.
- Verification: every certificate checked against CPCB’s SSO portal records before it changes hands.
- Compliance support: help through the SSO portal filing so the paperwork matches the material.
Turn your certificates into revenue
If you’re a CPCB-registered recycler generating EPR certificates, we give you a market to sell into instead of certificates sitting unsold.
- Market access: a route to producers and PROs actively looking to meet their obligation.
- Price discovery: transparent pricing instead of one-off, opaque deals.
- Faster realisation: certificates traded closer to when they’re generated, not left to accumulate.
Every certificate we trade traces back to a real, documented recycling event
The EPR credit market has an integrity problem — certificates that don’t correspond to real recycling. We built our approach around closing that gap, not exploiting it.
CPCB-registered recyclers only
We source certificates only from recyclers registered on CPCB's SSO portal, cross-checked against their filed records.
Backed by Trace
Where the underlying material moved through Circle8's supply chain, it's documented in Trace — a certificate isn't a number on a spreadsheet, it's tied to a lot you can look up.
No paper-only trades
We don't broker certificates we can't verify. If a certificate doesn't check out against SSO portal records, we don't trade it.
Common questions
01What exactly is a battery EPR credit?
02Who needs to buy EPR credits?
03How are EPR credits priced?
04Does Circle8 issue or verify certificates itself?
05What if my recycler isn't CPCB-registered?
Buying or selling EPR credits?
Tell us a bit about your obligation or your certificates and we’ll get back to you.
An obligation deadline isn’t the time to start looking.
Talk to our team early — about your target, your supply chain, or the certificates you’re generating.