Why Circular Solutions
Circular Solutions is founded on the premise that organizations can do good for the planet AND their business. We have created a powerful technology platform that brings unmatched transparency, credibility and measurement to recycling and waste diversion. We leverage the newest AI and blockchain technology to analyze the unique issues of each client and create a path to a circular economy, ensuring their waste materials don’t end up in landfills or incineration.
With more than 20 years of experience, CS offers a unique combination of industry knowledge and state-of-the-art technology to verify recycling efforts at every step and provide tamper-proof, verified data and documentation to share with consumers, clients and regulators as organizations tell their sustainability story.
Our Methodology
Circular Solutions offers end-to-end solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of organizations seeking to make a positive impact on the planet while keeping an eye on the bottom line.
From resource optimization to waste reduction, we take a comprehensive approach to ensure a seamless transition to a circular economy. Our proprietary process:
- Verifies results using AI-powered, blockchain-backed technology for real-time reporting of critical recycling data with credibility and transparency at every step of the process
- Incorporates a client’s sustainability objectives and analyzes their unique issues and challenges
- Designs solutions to optimize front-of-house waste collection and back-of-house processes to create a path for recyclable materials to keep them out of landfills or incineration.
Leading the Charge
Leadership Team
Jay Todd (J.T.) Marburger
Chief Executive Officer
JT Marburger founded Circular Solutions in 2018 with a clear vision: to help organizations do measurable good for the planet while strengthening their business performance. As Founder and CEO, he brings more than 30 years of experience integrating recycled content into manufacturing processes and designing circular economy systems that move beyond aspiration to verified execution.
Marburger has led the development of recycling and upcycling circular economies for some of the world’s most recognized brands, including The Coca-Cola Company, Adidas, Delta Air Lines, and Hilton Hotels. His work spans major global sporting and live events such as the Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, the PGA Tour, the FIFA World Cup, multiple Olympic Games, and Major League Soccer, as well as colleges and universities, health systems, and municipalities nationwide.
Under his leadership, Circular Solutions developed Circular OS™, an AI- and blockchain-enabled technology platform that verifies, tracks, and traces recycling and material flows across the entire value chain. The platform transforms fragmented recycling data into transparent, auditable intelligence, enabling organizations to prove recycling outcomes, support regulatory compliance, and deliver defensible sustainability performance.
Throughout his career, Marburger has focused on solving real-world material recovery challenges by connecting innovation, infrastructure, and end markets. In addition to owning and operating textile-focused circular economy companies that convert recycled commodities into branded products at scale, he has piloted a first-of-its-kind project in Southern Idaho to recover metals from landfill-bound material, diverting valuable commodities from disposal and converting them into verified recycled feedstock for manufacturing.
These projects generate real-time operational data that feeds directly into Circular OS, and these initiatives reflect Marburger’s systems-level approach to circular economy development. By pairing recycled content integration with digital verification, Marburger enables end-to-end transparency, allowing manufacturers, regulators, and brand owners to trace materials, validate recycled content claims, and rely on defensible, third party-ready reporting.
Marburger earned a bachelor’s degree in management from Georgia Southern University. He served on the Parker College of Business Advisory Board for 28 years and was named Alumnus of the Year in 2009. He received the Georgia Governor’s Award in 2013 for establishing circular economy solutions supporting the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Christi McGee
Chief Strategy and Brand Officer
Christi McGee is Chief Strategy and Brand Officer at Circular Solutions, where she leads global strategy, brand positioning, and deployment of AI- and blockchain-enabled recycling verification systems for the world’s largest sporting and live events, including the FIFA World Cup 2026, Special Olympics USA Games 2026, and the LA28 Olympic Games.
Christi specializes in transforming sustainability from aspirational commitments into verified, auditable performance systems. Her work focuses on circular event solutions and end-of-life accountability, ensuring materials generated at stadiums, venues, and other properties are tracked, validated, and recovered through real-world supply chains — not just reported as diversion.
With more than 25 years of experience spanning Coca-Cola Consolidated, NASCAR, and national trade organizations, Christi brings a rare combination of operational execution, public affairs leadership, and brand risk management to the global sustainability conversation.
McGee has also been a featured speaker at the 2024 World Recycling Conference in Rome, 2024 ‘Women Breaking the Mold’ Event, the 2025 Green Sports Alliance Summit, the 2025 PolyNext Conference (Future of Plastic Recycling) in Dubai, and selected as an Honoree and speaker at the 2025 Women Breaking the Mold Conference.
McGee holds a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Virginia. She also earned a certificate in global sports management from New York University, and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion certificate from Cornell University. She is a member of WISE CLT (Women in Sports and Entertainment) and volunteers for various local organizations.
Joe Marburger
Chief Financial Officer
Joe Marburger has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Circular Solutions, where he leads financial strategy and performance for the company’s blockchain-based sustainability platform. He joined the company in 2024 as Vice President of Finance. Marburger holds a degree in Finance and Information Systems and brings a strong background in financial analysis and operational planning from his previous experience in commercial real estate, where he worked from 2019 to 2024.
He is responsible for strategic financial planning and technological advancements using data analytics and digital tools to boost operational efficiency and environmental responsibility.
Having grown up in the circular economy business, Marburger brings to the company a passion for making a positive impact. Prior to joining Circular Solutions, Marburger spent five years in the commercial real estate industry in Florida, Texas and Georgia, serving in a number of increasingly responsible roles.
Many Industries Served
Our Clients
Circular Solutions is trusted by top companies around the world. From airports, aquariums and sports venues to universities and zoos, our clients are committed to sustainable solutions.
Why Choose Us?
FAQs
Who is Circular Solutions (CS)?
At Circular Solutions, our mission is to bring transparency, credibility and measureable impact to recycling and sustainability efforts. We utilize the newest AI and blockchain technology to help organizations from universities to sports venues, verify their recycling efforts, track the process to ensure it’s working and share that data in a credible way. In short, CS helps organizations ensure their recycling efforts are paying off — for the planet and their bottom line.
What does CS do?
Circular Solutions has created a powerful platform that brings unmatched clarity, trust and accountability to recycling and waste diversion. We leverage the newest AI and blockchain technology to help save money, verify recycling programs, and calculate true environmental outcomes. Verification of the process is key—especially in our current environment when results are not always trusted. Our technology-powered tools verify, track and prove impact—with tech-verified recycling accountability of your recycling journey from pickup to processing.
What kinds of organizations are you working with?
We work with a broad variety of organizations, including but not limited to sports properties, airports, convention centers, zoos and aquariums, and municipalities. No matter the size of the property or facility, CS has a solution for every type of client wherever they are on their sustainability journey.
How does CS determine if their customer’s recycling is actually being recycled and not diverted to landfills or incinerated?
Through our technology-driven CS Verify Platform, CS tracks recycling by material type (cardboard, cans, bottles, etc.) from the customer’s location to the hauler, and then to the sorting facility (called an MRF).
CS Verify is able to determine if a particular recycled material is properly picked up and transferred to a facility that is capable of recycling it and returning it to a circular supply chain. CS Verify provides all recycling supply chain participants the opportunity to partner and participate in providing transparency to the recycling process.
Does CS track recycled material after it leaves the sorting facility (MRF) to determine its end market?
Many of our clients want to know more than whether recycling is actually happening. They want to know the end market for their:
- Recycled material. With our CS Track platform, CS requires a bill of lading from the MRF to a processing plant that converts commodity bales into recycling raw material substrate that can be integrated into the manufacturing process.
How is your technology different?
We know credibility is at the heart of circular economy reporting. By leveraging both CS Verify and CS Track’s AI and blockchain technology, we can verify recycling at every stage of the process and will provide organizations with documentation at each stage for accurate, auditable reporting. That includes pounds of recyclable materials that leave a location (like an event venue, for example), a bill of lading with the exact amount of material processed and verified recycling information from the processor turning the recycled material into new products. The data is stored using blockchain technology, so it is transparent throughout the entire process and cannot be changed later representing accurate facts at that snapshot in time.