Top 96 Recycling startups in UK

Updated: March 15, 2024

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Funding: $433.5M
Newcleo is developing the latest generation of nuclear reactors providing a path to combatting both climate change and existing nuclear waste. It is working on so-called Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and wants to use so-called MOX technology to make it possible to recycle spent uranium from conventional nuclear power plants.
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Funding: $213.6M
Carbon Clean Solutions develops CO2 separation technology designed for industrial and gas treating applications.
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Funding: $212.4M
Carbon Clean Solutions develops CO2 separation technology designed for industrial and gas treating applications.
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Funding: $124M
Gen Phoenix recycles materials to produce advanced upholstery and cladding materials.
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Polytag has developed a new UV tag reading technology that will enable brands, legislators and recycling operators to trace plastic packaging through the circular economy
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Funding: $95.5M
Sylvera develops machine learning-based tools to track the performance of carbon offsets.
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Funding: $53.1M
OLIO is a free app that connects neighbours to ensure that surplus food and other items are shared instead of being wasted. The location-based app and website let users list and post a photo of the unwanted food items that will otherwise go waste.
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Funding: $46.8M
Econic Technologies develops new catalysts and processes for the manufacture of polymers from CO2.
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Funding: $45.7M
Too Good To Go is an app for fighting food waste. They fight food waste by helping food stores sell their surplus food instead of throwing it away. Their mission is to reduce food waste worlwide, and their vision is to create a world where food produced is food consumed.
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Funding: $46.2M
Worn Again is a textile to textile recycling technology that can separate and recapture polyester and cotton from discarded.
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Funding: $46.2M
Worn Again Technologies develops a polymer recycling technology to create waste-free textile circular materials.
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Funding: $44.9M
Circulor uses blockchain and AI to cut the cost of traceability and due diligence in raw materials supply chains. It’s pioneer customers include car manufacturers, EV battery manufacturers, commodity traders, and miners who collectively want to pioneer more effective approaches to responsible sourcing. Circulor proves chain of custody for manufactured and recycled materials, ensuring that recyclable waste enters and exits the recycling process successfully.
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Funding: $41.9M
Winnow developed smart kitchen tech to help commercial kitchens reduce food waste
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Funding: £35M
Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.
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Kiverco develops modular recycling plants that can be set up in just one day.
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Funding: £31.3M
Satellite Vu develops “the world’s thermometer”: a satellite constellation capable of monitoring thermal emissions around the world.
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Funding: $37.4M
Everledger platform enables both vehicle and battery manufacturers to track repurposing activity downstream. With batteries as unique digital assets and ownership history recorded on the blockchain, a longer-term supply of minerals for these products is more easily secured.
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Funding: $30.8M
Greyparrot uses computer vision to make waste sorting more efficient at different stages of the waste chain.
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Funding: $26M
RECYCLEYE provides image recognition tools for the waste industry.
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Funding: $25M
TrueCircle is a computer vision startup for the recycling industry. Its AI model ingests the footage and calculates composition by weight in real-time, to a 95%+ accuracy
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Funding: $25M
Isometric is a carbon removal registry, verification service, and science platform.
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Funding: $25M
Safi (previously TrueCircle) is building a marketplace to support waste processing facilities in selling the verified material they reclaim.
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Funding: £16.4M
Notpla wants to replace all single use plastics for material made of seaweed and plants. As it is made of seaweed and plants, Notpla is a very malleable product, perfect to store beverages, sauces and food in general.
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Funding: $18.4M
Xampla is leading the charge in plant-protein materials, a next generation material that is 100% a natural replacement for plastic.
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Funding: $16.6M
Emitwise is an AI-powered carbon management platform that helps businesses in tracking and managing their carbon footprint.
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Funding: $15.8M
Supercritical is a software platform that helps businesses reach carbon net zero and tackle the climate crisis.
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Funding: $14.5M
Pledge builds a carbon-measurement and removal API that enables businesses of any size to provide efficient and measurable climate solutions to its customers.
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Funding: £10.6M
Aceleron is using new battery technology to create the World's first recyclable, upgradeable and serviceable lithium-ion batteries to drive the global circular economy.
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Funding: $11.9M
Recycling Technologies specializes in waste management and engineering processes and helps customers achieve financial gains from waste. Recycling Technologies also provides a solution to chemically recycle end-of-life plastic back to a crude oil equivalent called Plaxx, which is a synthetic oil that has multiple industrial applications.
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Funding: $12.1M
CarbonChain's AI platform automates emissions tracking in carbon-heavy supply chains for a net-zero economy.
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Funding: $10.9M
Deep Branch’s proprietary CO₂-to-protein process directly utilises CO₂ from industrial emissions to generate Proton, a single-cell protein (SCP) optimised for animal nutrition.
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Funding: £8M
Greenback Recycling Technologies is building a decentralised network of recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste, which it buys from local collectors.
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Funding: $10.9M
Mission Zero is an Electrochemical that removes carbon dioxide from the air and concentrates it for a variety of sequestration pathways.
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Funding: $11.1M
Interface Polymers’s di-block copolymer additive technology is claimed to simplify the processing of plastics such as mixtures of polyethylene or polypropylene and facilitate recycling.
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Funding: £7.5M
Wild makes refillable plastic-free deodorant
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Funding: $8M
Ecologi is a subscription carbon offsetting platform
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Funding: $7.5M
Bio-Bean has found a way to turn that waste into a valuable resource. The company developed coffee-based biofuel for households and industrial use.
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Funding: €6M
Itero creates profitable waste management solutions. The startup's chemical recycling technology is designed to convert previously non-recycled plastic waste into petrochemical resources.
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Funding: £4.5M
At MacRebur our mission is to help solve two world problems; to help solve the waste plastic epidemic, and to enhance the asphalt used to make our road surfaces around the world.
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Funding: £4.5M
Developing novel technology for carbon sequestration into concrete
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Funding: £4.4M
ReNew ELP develops cutting-edge technology that enables the upcycling of plastics that are traditionally considered non-recyclable.
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Funding: $4.4M
Seabound is a carbon capture technology company.
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Funding: £3.5M
Big Atom is initially focused on reverse-manufacturing tyre rubber into recycled crude.
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Funding: $3.4M
Circular digital platform using technology to streamline the post purchase experience through digital wardrobes and care and repair services
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Funding: £2.7M
Keenan Recycling is a food waste recycling company who provides reliable and regular collections across the whole of Scotland.
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Funding: £2.6M
Again develops system to clean reusable packaging and prepare it for refill and reuse
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Funding: £2.5M
Hero Labs produces ultrasonic device to monitor a property’s water use and prevent leaks
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Funding: £2.5M
Hylo Athletics creates sustainable athletic footwear, that offers high performance and low environmental impact
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Funding: £2.5M
All Good Things is a multi-brand outlet retailer that sells pre-owned, fragmented, or repaired apparel to promote sustainable fashion.
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Funding: $2.9M
Ocean Bottle wants to revolutionise two things: plastic recycling and the design of water bottles. With every sale, 11.4kg of plastic is collected in coastal communities where plastic pollution is a big problem.