Top 8 Recycling startups in New Zealand

Updated: April 12, 2024

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Funding: $1B
LanzaTech has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources.
2
Funding: NZ$60M
Developing a biometallurgical processes that use microbes to capture value from metal waste streams while mitigating environmental harm.
3
Funding: NZ$14M
Noissue is a global packaging platform, wants to make sustainable packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes.
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Nilo is a deep-tech business that has created plastic waste-derived adhesive for use in the manufacturing of wood-based boards.
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Funding: $280K
A sustainable and home compostable mushroom based material that is a direct replacement to polystyrene/ Styrofoam packaging
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R3pack is a packaging company which provides compostable and recycled courier options.
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Shear Edge is accelerating the worlds transition to natural materials, transforming industries built on synthetics one natural fiber at a time.
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Buddy is a relationship-led marketplace built for scrappies, by scrappies.