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NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 9, 2025 / The plastics market is enormous - an $824 billion global economy in constant motion, producing everything from packaging to automotive parts. But within that mountain of material lies a $50 billion recycling segment that holds the key to a more sustainable future. The challenge of using that key has always centered around trust. Can recycled content truly meet the same standards as virgin plastic? And can it scale into regulated categories like food packaging, where safety and compliance leave no room for error?

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 9, 2025 / It started quietly - a few headlines, a few countries, a few brands trying to track what happens after a product's life ends. But behind those headlines, a much larger story has been taking shape. A new economy is emerging, one that doesn't run on speculation or sentiment, but on verification. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is building it, molecule by molecule.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 9, 2025 / For decades, global conferences have promised to transform recycling and sustainability into real economic systems. They spoke of "markets for recycled content," "value chains for safety," and "circular economies that pay for themselves." The words were polished, the presentations inspiring. But when the lights dimmed and the delegates went home, nothing resembling a real market ever materialized. Recycling rates stalled, fire safety claims kept failing, and those pesky under-the-radar plastics were still written off as waste.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 9, 2025 / When mainstream, business, and lifestyle media all start telling the same story, it usually means something's shifted.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Culture always catches up to innovation. And when Rolling Stone is among those spotlighting the change, you can bet that its going mainstream sooner rather than later. This time, the culture content provider sang a tune about recycling, saying "plastic promises are dead and proof is the new flex". When it's written in Rolling Stone, the message reads as more than just another sustainability story. It's a generational pivot.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Every so often, culture catches up to innovation - and Rolling Stone was first to say it out loud. When a publication built on spotting the next big thing declares that plastic promises are dead and proof is the new flex, it's not just another sustainability story. It's a generational pivot. From there, USA Today, The Straits Times, Morning Honey, OPIS, and The Los Angeles Tribune joined the chorus, each showing how SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is turning the circular economy into something the world can finally verify. And profit from.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Decades of climate conferences and sustainability summits have produced mountains of pledges and pages of regulations. Targets were set, quotas were announced, and deadlines were promised. On paper, it looked like progress. In practice, it looked like failure. Plastics still pile up, recycling systems still disappoint, and safety standards still collapse when tested.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / History is full of moments when the world came dangerously close to catastrophe, not because of an enemy's firepower, but because of uncertainty. During the Cold War, radar glitches and sensor errors nearly triggered nuclear retaliation more than once. In 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov refused to act on a computer warning of a U.S. missile strike, a "false positive" that could have set off Armageddon. The lesson is chilling. What separates escalation from restraint is not always strength or diplomacy. Sometimes it is a guess made in minutes, based on flawed information.

Global media outlets highlight how SMX's molecular marker technology is redefining recycling, traceability, and "proof as currency" across industries.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 7, 2025 / When Rolling Stone says plastic promises are dead and proof is the new flex, that's not hype; it's a turning point. For years, summits and slogans tried to will recycling into existence without the receipts to back it up. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) just added ink to the printer, turning empty promises into printable proof by embedding digital memory within the very materials the world has spent decades promising to track.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 7, 2025 / Every three years, the plastics and rubber industry gathers in Düsseldorf, ready to flex. K 2025, starting October 8th, isn't some sleepy trade fair. It's the main event. The machines are shinier, the chemicals more exotic, and the presentations always dripping with ambition. You can't knock the effort it takes to bring the entire supply chain under one roof. It's impressive, no doubt about it.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 7, 2025 / Fashion brands have always been built on one primary characteristic: trust. Trust that the product is genuine. Trust that the craftsmanship is real. Trust that the values behind the brand match the ones it promotes. From Paris ateliers to fast-fashion retailers, every label's reputation depends on that same promise of quality, consistency, and credibility.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 6, 2025 / It wouldn't take a missile, a cyber army, or even a keystroke from a foreign power to break civilization. It could start with something worth less than a cup of coffee. A one-dollar SIM card.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 6, 2025 / California never misses a chance to make a statement or a lawsuit. So when Los Angeles County went after Coca-Cola and PepsiCo for allegedly misleading consumers about plastic waste, the headlines practically wrote themselves. Two global icons, one sweeping accusation, and a familiar villain: plastic.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 3, 2025 / Plastic isn't just everywhere - it's everything. From the food we buy to the cars we drive, the global plastics economy is worth more than $800 billion. But its future hinges on one critical shift: moving waste from liability to asset. That shift depends on proof - the ability to verify recycled content with the same rigor as virgin plastic. Without it, recycling stalls, ESG pledges collapse into greenwashing, and entire supply chains lose value.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 3, 2025 / The plastics market is enormous - an $824 billion global economy in constant motion, producing everything from packaging to automotive parts. But within that mountain of material lies a $50 billion recycling segment that holds the key to a more sustainable future. The challenge of using that key has always centered around trust. Can recycled content truly meet the same standards as virgin plastic? And can it scale into regulated categories like food packaging, where safety and compliance leave no room for error?

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 2, 2025 / The plastics market isn't small change. It's a $824 billion global arena - and it's been hungry for proof. Not about the material itself, but about sustainability and recycling measures that can keep its environmental impact in check. The world is done with promises and pledges. What it demands now is verifiable evidence that recycled content is exactly what companies claim it to be.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 2, 2025 / We are closer than we think. Not closer in the foggy, geopolitical sense. Closer in the literal tick-tick of a clock. A recent bust in New York City uncovered hundreds of servers and more than 100,000 SIM cards, all ready to flood networks and overwhelm emergency channels. That plot was low-tech, cheap, and terrifyingly effective. It did not need explosives. It only needed numbers. Numbers that turn into noise, noise into chaos, and chaos that very quickly becomes a national emergency.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 2, 2025 / The market doesn't reward talk. It rewards proof. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the debate over supply chain circularity. Recycling pledges and sustainability headlines have been plentiful, but hard evidence of what's really moving through the system has been scarce. That's where SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) comes in. It provides the proof that has long been missing, embedding molecular markers directly into materials and positioning itself as the ultimate facilitator of material efficiency.

NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 2, 2025 / The most dangerous plots don't look cinematic. They look ordinary. A server rack in a rented apartment. A shipment of SIM cards that look no different than millions already in circulation. A cloned router indistinguishable from the real thing. That's the camouflage of modern conflict - weapons that hide in plain sight until they scale fast enough to bring entire systems to their knees.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 1, 2025 / History's most famous breach was not a battle at all. It was a gift. The Trojan Horse slipped past the gates of Troy not because it was stronger than the walls, but because no one questioned its origin. A failure of provenance turned a symbol of victory into the instrument of defeat. That lesson has echoed for centuries, and today's security challenges are repeating the same flaw. Modern "horses" do not arrive carved from wood. They arrive as chips, routers, sensors, and SIM cards.

Integrating molecular traceability into recycled plastics to deliver transparent, auditable, and regulatory-ready reporting-to bridge the recycled content gap, lower costs for American companies, and empower new generations of consumers to choose sustainable products.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 30, 2025 / COP 29 came and went like the 28 before it: speeches polished to perfection, headlines filled with urgency, and an outcome that changed almost nothing. Three decades of summits and still the world burns plastics instead of recycling them, still accepts fire-safety claims that collapse under pressure, and still mistakes diplomacy for progress.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Three decades. Twenty-nine global conferences. Billions poured into hotels, banquets, travel, and stagecraft. And to be fair, these gatherings weren't in vain. They brought the world's attention to plastics, sustainability, and safety in a way that no single company or country could have done alone. Ambition was never the problem. The intent was real. But after all the speeches and pledges, what do we still see? Plastics burned instead of recycled. Landfills bursting at the seams. Safety standards that collapse under stress tests.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Europe has long been the beating heart of global fashion, but now it intends to become the brain as well. While designers in Paris and Milan set the trends on the runway, the continent's regulators have been setting just as aggressive targets behind the scenes. The EU's Digital Product Passport rules, ESG mandates, and Green Deal initiatives all point to one thing: traceability is no longer optional. It's the law. And the brands that want to thrive under this regime need more than ambition. They need proof.