Top 39 Recycling startups in Netherlands

Updated: March 19, 2024

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Funding: $199.8M
Avantium's YXY plants-to-plastics technology catalytically converts plant-based fructose syrup from corn and wheat sugars into PEF (polyethylene furanoate).
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Funding: €100M
Repeats Group is a plastics recycling platform focused on producing high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene.
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Funding: $77.6M
Agreena is a Dutch startup which mints, verifies, and sells carbon credits generated by farmers who transition to more regenerative forms of farming.
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Morssinkhof Rymoplast is the plastic recycling company.
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Funding: €42.5M
Ioniqa Technologies has a patented technology that uses magnetic colloidal systems with nanoparticles to break down PET into a re-usable monomer.
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Funding: $35.4M
The Ocean Cleanup develops technologies to extract, prevent, and intercept plastic pollutions. It's developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.
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Funding: €20.1M
Byborre is committed to shifting towards a circular textile economy. It specializes in design, material development, engineered knits, and supply chain services.
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Funding: €20M
Urban Mining Corp enables plastic recycling through unique patented magnetic density separation technique
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Funding: €16M
Seenons' platform and app matches waste with businesses that upcycle waste into new products, giving it a new life.
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Funding: €12.5M
Circularise uses blockchain to track plastics from the initial resin to the end product, including any additives along the way.
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Funding: €10M
Chargetrip offers Smart EV Routing as an API SaaS platform.
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An energy-efficient solution for endless product to product transformation. To recycle infinitely, again and again and again. Creating a fully circular polyester chain.
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PolyStyreneLoop developed a solution to close the loop for hard to recycle polystyrene foam that is left over as demolition waste.
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Funding: €4M
Hydraloop develops home water-recycling system. It allows to use the recycled water from the shower, bath and washing machine for toilet flushing, the garden and washing machine.
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Fuenix Ecogy upcycles plastic waste into raw materials, that can be used to create brand new plastic, which is 100% circular.
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OBBOTEC is cpecialized in chemical plastic recycling. Its ambition is to realize a significant reduction in the use of fossil materials for plastic production. This by achieving maximum feasible recycling and thus contributing to the current plastic related environmental and CO2 challenges.
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Searious Business provides solutions to major brands that want to lower their plastic footprint, by creating a circular use of plastic. This approach is ideal for big brands that work with packaging, furniture and consumer electronics.
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AELS is a total end-of-life service provider that procures end-of-life aircraft, helps owners generate maximum revenue via a consignment.
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Funding: $300K
Circular IQ's application that collects and accumulates data along the supply chain, from the source of resources to the supplier’s contracts. This enables companies to monitor and optimise the sustainability of their products, thereby providing transparency to customers and buyers.
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Funding: €146K
Reflow has pioneered an approach to recycle discarded plastic into a range of exceptional, sustainable materials for 3D printing. We‘ve established a collaborative network of recyclers, makers and designers to tackle plastic pollution, support local communities and co-create meaningful design
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Recycle.Green is a one-stop-shop for all environment-friendly products, technologies, services and consumables.
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Funding: €70K
Veridis' technology allows to separate top-quality plastics from lower quality plastics.
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Precious Plastic is a global community of hundreds of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. Knowledge, tools and techniques are shared online, for free.
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Repurpose supports contractors, project developers and governments in the reuse of building materials from transformation and demolition projects.
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Van Plestik developed a 3D printer that uses plastic waste as a raw material. With it in hand, they create ‘unique, high-quality and affordable plastic objects’ like furniture or custom-made parts for the local industry.
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Dutchfiets manufactures futuristic-looking bikes made of 100% recyclable plastic. Its principal advantage over a regular steel bike is that it doesn’t rust and is cheap and light.
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The Good Plastic Company develops plastic recycling technology that is capable of recycling 90% of existing plastic types by turning plastic waste into beautiful decorative panels
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Plasticiet is using a technique of kneading and folding recycled polycarbonate to create building blocks for its new Mother of Pearl line of furniture.
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The Great Bubble Barrier intercepts plastics in rivers and raises awareness in order to prevent more plastic pollution. It aims for a total solution that can permanently decrease the amount of plastics entering our oceans.
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Stadsgas is a sustainable initiative, which converts food waste into biogas, organic fertilisers, and electricity. It aims to reuse food waste and offer it to more destinations than ever, thereby reducing unnecessary energy loss.
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Polimeer aims to become the world’s number one design brand and web-shop for recycled plastic furniture and home decor.
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EME offers a safe and secure cloud-based marketplace on which companies can exchange their excess materials business-to-business.
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C2CA Technology provides Circuton, a mobile on-site concrete recycling technology. The startup’s technology processes concrete rubble into gravel, sand, and concrete.
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BioFashionTech is an innovative company which makes waste textiles into valuable products that can be used for biocomposites and chemistry.
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GroenCollect is a startup concerned with the sustainable, fast and economical collection of waste. It collects organic waste, which is rich in useful substances and prepares it for use in all kinds of biochemical processes.
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BioBTX replaces oil for biomass & waste as a resource for the production of aromatics. With its technology, BioBTX can convert end-of-life waste plastics and biomass towards circular and sustainable chemical building blocks.
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strives to develop climate neutral polymers, to help customers to cut their carbon footprint in an affordable manner.
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FastFeetGrinded has developed a unique shoe recycling installation that pulverizes and separates all types of footwear.
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E-waste Arcades is committed to promoting the reuse of raw materials and raising awareness about e-waste. By making recycling fun and easy, we want to bridge the gap between consumer and recycler.