Top 29 Recycling startups in Israel

Updated: February 24, 2024

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Funding: $240.1M
The UBQ proprietary process converts Residual Municipal Solid Waste, destined to landfills, into novel bio-based UBQ Material, that can be used to make everyday durable products - with a reduced carbon footprint.
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Funding: $130M
TIPA manufactures bio-based, fully compostable packaging for the food and fashion industry. It compares its packaging material to orange peel, decomposing in 180 days in compost conditions.
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Funding: $50M
WINT is a water intelligence system that helps save water, reduce consumption, and prevent water leaks.
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Funding: $33.9M
3PLW develops a process that can convert food waste into feedstock for biodegradable plastics. The process involves breaking down raw organic waste and then fermenting it to create a “soup” after which the solids and liquids are separated.
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Funding: $33.9M
TripleW upcycles food waste into high-demand, high-value lactic acid, the building block of PLA bioplastics.
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Funding: $32.3M
Homebiogas develops bio-toilet which can convert human waste into cooking fuel sans the need to access sewers or water grids.
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Funding: $28M
Evigence Sensors provide brands, retailers and consumers a new way to monitor the shelf life of perishable products in real time to reduce food waste by managing freshness.
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Funding: $27M
Blue Sphere develops waste-to-energy plants that generate biofuels from food and farm waste. These biofuels are then sold to local utility providers that utilize them to power steam turbines for electricity production.
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Funding: $11.5M
RepAir Carbon’s aim is to develop cell approach to capture or store greenhouse gases “at a gigaton scale”.
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Funding: $6.9M
Bio-Geo Agglomerated Stone technology for cement-free precast products for construction with concrete strength, 6x better insulation
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Funding: $6.6M
Wasteless provides machine learning and real­time tracking solution for grocery stores. It develop a “dynamic pricing” technology that will make sure everything gets sold.
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Funding: $6M
TaKaDu is a water network management company offering water utilities to improve network efficiency and planning decisions.
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Funding: $6M
Helios novel chemical processes reduce carbon emissions, energy consumption and OpEx in Steel, Copper, Nickel, Silicon and more. Resource extraction could be done in a way that is far less harmful to the planet, not just iron, but silicon, copper, nickel, lithium and other critical materials.
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Funding: $2.5M
Balena is developing compostable and biodegradable thermoplastic materials, on a mission to create a circular model for consumer goods products
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Funding: $2M
MadeRight offers a natural additive that enhances sustainable packaging. The startup is deploying fermentation technology to cultivate fungi grown on organic industrial waste such as wood chips, to produce sustainable materials that are biodegradable and free from pollutants to create a recyclable plastic alternative for packaging.
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Funding: $1.5M
Solutum is developing a unique formula for plastic bags that dissolve in water
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Funding: $1.3M
Growing the next generation of sustainable protein for the food & beverage industry
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Melodea developed technology for the extraction and industrial production of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) from wood pulp and paper production side streams. It extracts CNCs and using them to produce products like water-based adhesives, paints and coatings, or eco-friendly foams.
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Funding: $700K
Valentis Nanotech develops platform that combines nanoparticles with cellulose nanocrystals (essentially, a form of plant pulp waste) to produce unique coatings and compounds. For example, they’re working on a strong flexible food packaging material that could offer an alternative to aluminum foil.
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Funding: $75K
Plastic Back is doing plastic reverse engineering magic: breaking down any type of plastic waste into its original oil, wax and chemical components.
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Funding: $25K
TextRe uses synthetic fibers such as polyester and nylon from textile waste, and combines them with certain substances, including a reduced amount of plastic and other unnamed materials, in order to create plastic pellets.
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AgRobics is a renewable energy company that develops advanced anaerobic technology for treating heterogeneous wastewater.
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Watergen is a patented technology that creates high-quality drinking water out of the air for people everywhere.
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Algalife develops new materials - natural and healthy pigments and fibers, from the same microorganisms – the algae
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High Hopes Labs developed a system that captures the carbon using gas-filled balloons. The frozen carbon is then separated from the air to be brought back to earth and can be recycled.
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Boson’s Hydrogen-capable Plasma Assisted Gasification technology (HPAG) produces Hydrogen for direct local use from a wide range of non-recyclable solid wastes (including medical and hazardous wastes) by applying high-temperature thermochemical recycling.
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Fabumin developed An novel, proprietary food industry substitute for albumin and emulsifiers.
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Daikawood is a new all-natural material composed of wood waste, giving industry a sustainable digital adaptation to current wood fabrication processes.
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NUFiltration enables water purification by sterilised medical devices. It's technology is based on a worldwide granted patent which provides for the reuse of sterilized medical devices - UltraFiltration filters at 3.3 nm nominal filtration rate - in the field of water treatment.