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Top 34 Recycling startups in France
Updated: March 27, 2024 | 27 |
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Funding: €500M
Orano is focusing its attention on the recovery of nuclear materials and the management of nuclear waste to generate safe, low-carbon electricity. With significant expertise in the nuclear fuel cycle, they offer customers tailor-made solutions for every stage of nuclear power generation, from mining, conversion, enrichment, recycling, logistics, and engineering to decommissioning and dismantling.
Orano is focusing its attention on the recovery of nuclear materials and the management of nuclear waste to generate safe, low-carbon electricity. With significant expertise in the nuclear fuel cycle, they offer customers tailor-made solutions for every stage of nuclear power generation, from mining, conversion, enrichment, recycling, logistics, and engineering to decommissioning and dismantling.
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Funding: $78M
Greenly develops a carbon accounting platform to track, assess, manage, and reduce CO2 emissions.
Greenly develops a carbon accounting platform to track, assess, manage, and reduce CO2 emissions.
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Funding: €71.8M
Carbios is a chemistry company that focuses on discovering and developing enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and textile polymers.
Carbios is a chemistry company that focuses on discovering and developing enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and textile polymers.
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Funding: $44.9M
Fairmat develops technology to recycle carbon fiber composite into a new material
Fairmat develops technology to recycle carbon fiber composite into a new material
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Funding: €40M
MECAWARE mission is to speed up strategic autonomy thanks to resource circularity and the intelligence of the material cycle.
MECAWARE mission is to speed up strategic autonomy thanks to resource circularity and the intelligence of the material cycle.
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Funding: €30M
Phenix is a food waste management startup that allows merchants to dispose their surplus via consumers and charity organisations.
Phenix is a food waste management startup that allows merchants to dispose their surplus via consumers and charity organisations.
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Funding: €28.5M
Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
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Funding: €23.2M
TOOPI Organics collects and transforms human urine into fertiliser products
TOOPI Organics collects and transforms human urine into fertiliser products
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Funding: €20.5M
A French biotechnology company that uses precision fermentation to produce real dairy products, accessible to everyone.
A French biotechnology company that uses precision fermentation to produce real dairy products, accessible to everyone.
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Neos specialises in the installation of waste sorting and management centres for wastes from household, current industrial and building and construction sites. The company sets up turnkey installations, further to local authorities or private companies’ call for tenders.
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Funding: €7.6M
Lactips created a water soluble and biodegradable thermoplastic pellets based on casein, a milk protein. They can be used to make a variety of packaging materials including food.
Lactips created a water soluble and biodegradable thermoplastic pellets based on casein, a milk protein. They can be used to make a variety of packaging materials including food.
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Funding: €6.3M
Pellenc ST develops optical sorting machines for household and industrial wastes. The technologies used to sort these materials are near infrared (NIR), middle infrared, vision & induction technologies. Thanks to Pellenc ST, sorting solutions are highly valuable in the recycling industries. The company is actively developing new sorting solutions for the single stream recycling. Renowned references in more than 40 countries all around the world have installed Pellenc ST machines.
Pellenc ST develops optical sorting machines for household and industrial wastes. The technologies used to sort these materials are near infrared (NIR), middle infrared, vision & induction technologies. Thanks to Pellenc ST, sorting solutions are highly valuable in the recycling industries. The company is actively developing new sorting solutions for the single stream recycling. Renowned references in more than 40 countries all around the world have installed Pellenc ST machines.
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Funding: €6.1M
ThrustMe offers advanced mobility solutions for the growing space industry which is facing new challenges due to the rise of satellite constellations. As experts in in-space propulsion and satellite orbital maneuvering strategies, ThrustMe enables a future where space is used sustainably to create value both on Earth, and beyond.
ThrustMe offers advanced mobility solutions for the growing space industry which is facing new challenges due to the rise of satellite constellations. As experts in in-space propulsion and satellite orbital maneuvering strategies, ThrustMe enables a future where space is used sustainably to create value both on Earth, and beyond.
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Funding: €3.4M
Ever Dye innovates in the fashion industry by developing ecological dyeing processes for the textile industry.
Ever Dye innovates in the fashion industry by developing ecological dyeing processes for the textile industry.
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Funding: €3.2M
Recyc'Elit is a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) system designed to solve difficult polyester-based textile recycling issues.
Recyc'Elit is a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) system designed to solve difficult polyester-based textile recycling issues.
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Funding: €2M
Saola is an eco-friendly footwear firm that creates unique shoes using recycled and bio-based materials.
Saola is an eco-friendly footwear firm that creates unique shoes using recycled and bio-based materials.
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Funding: €1M
Lemontri offers a turnkey multi-flow recycling service (plastic, metal, paper, glass, etc.).
Lemontri offers a turnkey multi-flow recycling service (plastic, metal, paper, glass, etc.).
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Funding: €1.4M
Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic.
Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic.
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Plastic Odyssey’s mission is to develop low-tech and open-source solutions to make it possible to reuse plastic to create other useful objects. To spread the word, they’re going to sail the most polluted seas for three years in a boat powered by plastic garbage. Along this journey they’ll stop in many ports to build small transposable and adaptable recycling plants built specifically for every region and its needs.
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Funding: €450K
ETC specializes in thermal storage, energetic efficiency, industrial wastes recovery high valuation and advanced materials characterization.
ETC specializes in thermal storage, energetic efficiency, industrial wastes recovery high valuation and advanced materials characterization.
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Funding: $386.2K
Uzer is a technology company that manufactures and distributes home barcode scanners for recycling materials. The technology allows its users to scan the barcodes of waste items before disposal, which assists them in finding sorting instructions, creating shopping lists based on consumption, providing reminders of required products, and sending lists of products required to online retailers for delivery. Furthermore, it helps its users analyze consumption and discover new products.
Uzer is a technology company that manufactures and distributes home barcode scanners for recycling materials. The technology allows its users to scan the barcodes of waste items before disposal, which assists them in finding sorting instructions, creating shopping lists based on consumption, providing reminders of required products, and sending lists of products required to online retailers for delivery. Furthermore, it helps its users analyze consumption and discover new products.
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Yoyo connects participants with coaches, who can be individuals or businesses, to help them sort recyclables into orange bags. Coaches train and encourage sorters, who earn points and rewards such as movie tickets for collecting and storing full Yoyo bags.
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Weturn recycles unsold textiles from fashion houses into new quality yarn, with a focus on traceability, profitability and information.
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Goodcollect’s mission is to make recycling easier and cheaper and streamline the waste management industry digitally. Today It takes hours to get quotes from waste haulers, bookings aren't made online, documents aren't digital and communication is asynchronous. Goodcollect has digitized the waste collection in order to combat these issues and modernise the waste management industry.
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ROSI is a company offering innovative solutions for recycling and revalorization of raw materials in the photovoltaic industry.
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Earthwake is developing a unique pyrolysis solution, called Chrysalis, designed to recycle plastic waste that is difficult to convert into energy. Indeed, the challenges are on an unprecedented scale: if plastic demand follows its current trajectory, waste volumes will triple in the coming years, while only 16% of plastic is recycled globally.
