Top 100 Recycling startups in India

Mar 09, 2025 | By Marjana Bačić

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Funding: $223.8M
Cashify.in is an e-commerce platform for reselling used electronic gadgets.
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Funding: $2.5M
Zerocircle produces bags made of seaweed that are designed to degrade like any living organism, leaving nothing but compost behind
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Funding: $84.4M
Lohum Cleantech enables re-use of used li-ion battery cells
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Funding: $70.9M
Haber is an integrated platform for process, utilities and water systems driving visibility.
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Funding: $44.5M
Recykal is a digital technology company that provides cloud based solutions for Waste Management and Recycling Industry. ecykal’s digital platform connects Waste Generators like Businesses, Consumers, Waste Aggregators, Recyclers and enables transactions between them with transparency and traceability.
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Funding: $28.6M
Attero is an integrated end to end electronics asset management company aiming at increasing value for all electronic inventories.
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Funding: $14.3M
Banyan Nation is unlocking the market for premium recycled plastics in India through technology innovations across the value chain.
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Funding: $10M
The Shakti Plastics Industries is a Mumbai based company that recycles all types of plastic waste, and one of the leading recyclers of polymer waste in India.
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Funding: $9.4M
Phool aims to solve the flower-temple-waste problem. It collects tonnes of floral waste from temples, which is handcrafted into charcoal-free incense, organic vermicompost, and biodegradable packaging material through their ‘flowercycling’ technology.
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Funding: $9.4M
Phool.co is a biomaterial startup, which uses floral waste to make patented organic fertilizer and incense sticks.
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Funding: $6.7M
BatX Energies has developed a proprietary Zero Waste–Zero Emission technology to extract critical Rare Earth metals.
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Funding: $5M
TrashCon Labs provides complete end-to-end technology that sorts the waste and recycles it, thus providing a comprehensive solution to convert every bit of waste to value.
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Funding: ₹400M
WeVOIS Labs is a solid waste management company which provides automated IoT- based, door to door waste collection solutions.
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Funding: $4.3M
Uravu Labs developed renewable water technology with inexhaustible atmospheric moisture and renewable energy to produce drinking water.
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Funding: $4M
Mumbai startup INDRA Water treats wastewater and industrial effluents from textiles, chemicals, and pharma industries.
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Funding: ₹300M
Recommercex is an organized scrap aggregator serves as a catalyst for positive change in the waste management and recycling industry.
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Funding: $3.5M
Loopworm is working on an extremely protein-rich diet for poultry farms and fisheries by using food waste. This environment-friendly method extracts the nutrition from food wastes with the help of different identified species of worms. The waste of these larvae, in turn, act as a natural fertiliser and creates a fertile soil ecosystem that plants can thrive in.
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Funding: $3.4M
TheKabadiwala works on waste management and organizing the waste sector.
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Funding: ₹197M
Ossus uses waste carbon in industrial effluents as the starting material for green hydrogen. The startup has developed an AI-powered, intelligent bioreactor.
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Funding: $1.5M
3RM is a solution first company enabling modern technologies and spirit to curb the waste management problem in the world.
Editor: Marjana Bačić
Marjana Bačić is a senior editor for RecyclingStartups. She has has more than 5 years experience covering the recycling industry. Marjana graduated from University of Belgrade, where she edited Recycling and Sustainable Development Journal. She has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability. She also participates in beach clean-up initiatives and advocates for sustainable practices in local businesses. In her free time, Marjana enjoys hiking in the scenic Montenegrin countryside, practicing yoga for mindfulness, and experimenting with plant-based recipes in her kitchen. You can contact Marjana at marjanabacic(at)recyclingstartups(dot)com