Advising a Recycling or Circular Economy Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Recovery Processes, Recycled Content Claims, Take-Back Programmes, and Feedstock Agreements
By Casey Scott McKay ·
A working guide to acting for recyclers, reprocessors, refurbishers, brands running take-back schemes, and the equipment vendors who supply them. It opens with the six intake questions that establish what a client actually holds. It then works through the protection decisions for recovery technology and plant know-how, the substantiation architecture that makes an environmental claim defensible, and the certification route that moves the assertion to a third party. Separate sections cover refurbishment and resale, take-back agreements, feedstock supply, equipment licensing, and producer responsibility schemes. It closes with three worked engagements and a ninety-day programme for a client that has none of this in place.
IP and Technology > General IP | Guide | Published 8 April 2026 - Updated 4 May 2026 | Casey Scott McKay - marksy.us
Who you are acting for, and why it changes everything
The circular economy is not one industry. It is at least four, and they want opposite things from the same body of law.
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