A closed-loop recycling process provides a way to recycle an entity's waste so that the waste is collected and processed to produce an article, which is then entered back into the entity's system, thereby "closing" the loop. A process for recycling waste can include collecting waste from an entity, inventorying information regarding the waste, analyzing the waste in order to determine how to recycle the waste, processing the analyzed waste to recycle the waste and produce an article, providing the article to the entity, tracking the waste during the process, and providing the entity with a certification that the entity's waste was used to produce the article.