P7CO® EcoResupply: why a certification is worth more than a promise
We built a circular economy platform and took it all the way to the official register of Portugal's Environment Agency. The software is the easy part.
Any platform can say it handles waste management. Few can prove it to the state.
We built P7CO® EcoResupply: a platform for operational execution and territory management. It has public dashboards on recycling, waste and water, and a private area where each organisation follows its own activity. It was built to connect public, private and social entities around something concrete: the traceable reuse of institutional surplus.
But it is not the software that sets it apart.
What eGAR certification is, and why it matters
In Portugal, moving waste requires an electronic waste tracking form (e-GAR), issued through SILiAmb, the system run by the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA). An organisation can issue those forms by hand, on the portal. Or it can issue them from its own software, automatically, through SILiAmb's WebServices.
The catch is that connecting software to SILiAmb is not a company's decision to make. It is a state authorisation. APA keeps a public register of the applications that have passed certification, and only those may transmit waste data into the national system.
We went through that process. P7CO® EcoResupply is on that register, certified for the eGAR WebServices, version 2.
Why this is the only proof that counts
A portfolio can be dressed up. A testimonial can be arranged. A certification from a public authority can be verified by anyone, at any time, without going through us.
That is why we give this one line more weight than any marketing sentence we could write. We are not asking you to believe us. We are telling you where to check.
What the platform actually does
- Public dashboards on recycling, waste and water, built for territorial transparency, not for internal reporting.
- A private area per organisation, where each entity sees and manages its own activity.
- Traceability of institutional surplus: what one organisation no longer needs may hold value for another, but only if the journey is auditable end to end.
- SILiAmb integration through the eGAR WebServices, under APA certification.
- Accessibility to the EN 301 549 standard, because a platform serving public bodies has to be usable by everyone.
Scope, and what the problem demands
| Scope | operational execution and territory management, with public dashboards and a private area per organisation |
| Integration | eGAR WebServices (v2) of SILiAmb, the platform of the Portuguese Environment Agency |
| Authorisation | APA certification, without which no software may transmit waste data into the national system |
| Accessibility | EN 301 549, required of anyone serving public bodies |
| Users | public, private and social entities, across the same territory |
None of this was our choice. The problem demands it, and that is what defines it.
The integration's specification belongs to the State, not to us: the format of the tracking forms is set in law, and access to SILiAmb depends on passing a certification process. There is no simpler version here to negotiate.
Accessibility is not a good intention. When the user is a municipality, EN 301 549 is a legal obligation, and a dashboard a screen reader cannot navigate is a dashboard that cannot be used by the people who have to use it.
And traceability is not one feature among others. It is the product. A waste system that cannot prove the journey of a container is not incomplete: it is wrong.
That is why the certification is worth more than any technical description we could write here. It is the only part of this that does not depend on you believing us.
What comes next
P7CO® EcoResupply is on its way to p7co.org. If you work with waste, water or territory management, and traceability matters to you more than a handsome year-end report, talk to us.
The circular economy is not proven with intentions. It is proven with data somebody can audit.
