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Top 100 Recycling startups in USA
Updated: April 12, 2024 |
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Utopia Plastix is a plant based alternative polymer using what is traditionally known as agricultural cover crops. Pelletized resins are a drop in replacement used in vast applications including blown film, blow molding, thermoforming, extrusion, injection molding, and 3D without equipment modifications. 100% recyclable. Degradable. Compostable. Utopias IP also includes the ability to add their material to petroleum-based plastics to make them eco-friendly.
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Funding: $3.8B
Redwood Materials is a advanced technology and process development for materials recycling, re-manufacturing, and reuse.
Redwood Materials is a advanced technology and process development for materials recycling, re-manufacturing, and reuse.
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Funding: $1.5B
Battery Resourcers is bringing sustainable closed loop recycling to the Li-ion battery industry.
Battery Resourcers is bringing sustainable closed loop recycling to the Li-ion battery industry.
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Funding: $1.5B
Ascend Elements turns spent lithium-ion batteries into ones that are better than new — longer-lasting, faster-charging and less-polluting.
Ascend Elements turns spent lithium-ion batteries into ones that are better than new — longer-lasting, faster-charging and less-polluting.
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Funding: $811.2M
PureCycle recycles polypropylene plastic without any residual odor, color or contaminants.
PureCycle recycles polypropylene plastic without any residual odor, color or contaminants.
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Funding: $719.1M
Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology which promises to keep food fresh for longer periods on store shelves and prevents waste
Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology which promises to keep food fresh for longer periods on store shelves and prevents waste
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Funding: $642.2M
Solugen makes chemicals from custom enzymes and renewable feedstock. It uses dextrose, a simple sugar, and in the future it aims to convert carbon into useful products like building materials and formaldehyde-free resins.
Solugen makes chemicals from custom enzymes and renewable feedstock. It uses dextrose, a simple sugar, and in the future it aims to convert carbon into useful products like building materials and formaldehyde-free resins.
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Funding: $606.5M
Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home, and personal care products.
Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home, and personal care products.
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Funding: $574.5M
EnergyX's direct lithium extraction technology can make lithium metal directly from brine and potentially in anode-ready form for electric vehicle batteries.
EnergyX's direct lithium extraction technology can make lithium metal directly from brine and potentially in anode-ready form for electric vehicle batteries.
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Funding: $481.7M
Rubicon provides affordable waste and recycling solutions for businesses seeking a smarter, sustainable alternative. Using technologies such as visual recognition and machine learning, the company conducts an initial screening of a client’s waste streams to identify types of waste and quantities, develops a waste separation system, and then tailors a waste collection schedule.
Rubicon provides affordable waste and recycling solutions for businesses seeking a smarter, sustainable alternative. Using technologies such as visual recognition and machine learning, the company conducts an initial screening of a client’s waste streams to identify types of waste and quantities, develops a waste separation system, and then tailors a waste collection schedule.
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Funding: $430M
Vanguard Renewables is a national leader in the development of organics-to-renewable energy projects.
Vanguard Renewables is a national leader in the development of organics-to-renewable energy projects.
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Funding: $407.5M
KoBold Metals is a developer of machine prospector technology intended to facilitate a search for cobalt ore locations digitally.
KoBold Metals is a developer of machine prospector technology intended to facilitate a search for cobalt ore locations digitally.
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Funding: $392.4M
Gradiant is a solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for advanced water and wastewater treatment.
Gradiant is a solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for advanced water and wastewater treatment.
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Funding: $380.9M
ProducePay is an AgTech company developing a financing platform that allows farmers to have access to liquidity for pricing transparency.
ProducePay is an AgTech company developing a financing platform that allows farmers to have access to liquidity for pricing transparency.
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Funding: $377.4M
Cirba Solutions is a sustainability company providing battery recycling management and materials.
Cirba Solutions is a sustainability company providing battery recycling management and materials.
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Funding: $340.3M
Genomatica manufactures sustainable chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
Genomatica manufactures sustainable chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
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Funding: $281.2M
Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol.
Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol.
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Funding: $280M
Advanced Disposal brings fresh ideas and solutions to the business of a clean environment.
Advanced Disposal brings fresh ideas and solutions to the business of a clean environment.
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Funding: $260M
Aqua Metals is the only company that has produced a commercially proven sustainable, closed-loop metal recycling process that is capable of producing the world’s purest metals.
Aqua Metals is the only company that has produced a commercially proven sustainable, closed-loop metal recycling process that is capable of producing the world’s purest metals.
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Funding: $250M
Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
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Funding: $231.6M
Newlight Technologies uses decarbonization technology dedicated to converting greenhouse gas into biomaterials.
Newlight Technologies uses decarbonization technology dedicated to converting greenhouse gas into biomaterials.
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Funding: $200M
Origin Materials created bio-based plastic bottles containing 80% renewable materials like cardboard and sawdust. Half of its capital investment to date has come from major food corporates like Nestle and Danone.
Origin Materials created bio-based plastic bottles containing 80% renewable materials like cardboard and sawdust. Half of its capital investment to date has come from major food corporates like Nestle and Danone.
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Funding: $200.3M
Natural Fiber Welding develops a technology that can use plants and natural fibers to make textiles and other durable items.
Natural Fiber Welding develops a technology that can use plants and natural fibers to make textiles and other durable items.
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Funding: $199.4M
Twelve is a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. We make essential products from air, not oil.
Twelve is a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. We make essential products from air, not oil.
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Funding: $175.1M
AMP Robotics creates robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a fraction of the cost of current technology.
AMP Robotics creates robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a fraction of the cost of current technology.
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Funding: $174.1M
RoadRunner Recycling provides tech-powered solutions for commercial waste recycling which helps businesses lower recurring costs.
RoadRunner Recycling provides tech-powered solutions for commercial waste recycling which helps businesses lower recurring costs.
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Funding: $172.7M
Agilyx created a solutions platform that can take a wide variety of waste plastics and polymers, and chemically recycle those plastics into high value synthetic oils, chemicals and in some cases back to basic monomers that can be used to re-manufacture products.
Agilyx created a solutions platform that can take a wide variety of waste plastics and polymers, and chemically recycle those plastics into high value synthetic oils, chemicals and in some cases back to basic monomers that can be used to re-manufacture products.
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Funding: $171M
Renmatix focuses on the production of cellulosic sugars from plant-based feedstocks for the improvement of bio-primarily based materials.
Renmatix focuses on the production of cellulosic sugars from plant-based feedstocks for the improvement of bio-primarily based materials.
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Funding: $152.5M
Trove develops an online trading software to improve the process of buying back and reselling used items.
Trove develops an online trading software to improve the process of buying back and reselling used items.
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Funding: $150M
Nexus Circular is a leader in pyrolysis-based advanced plastics recycling.
Nexus Circular is a leader in pyrolysis-based advanced plastics recycling.
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Funding: $134.2M
American Battery Technology Company champions environmental and ethical sourcing of critical battery materials..
American Battery Technology Company champions environmental and ethical sourcing of critical battery materials..
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Funding: $121.1M
Ecovative Design is a biomaterials company that makes biodegradable packaging from mushrooms
Ecovative Design is a biomaterials company that makes biodegradable packaging from mushrooms
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Funding: $116M
Avnos is commercializing technology to capture CO2 without consuming water, producing water for every ton.
Avnos is commercializing technology to capture CO2 without consuming water, producing water for every ton.
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Funding: $111.7M
Recycle Track Systems helps companies track and optimize their pickups, from on-demand removal to integrated waste management.
Recycle Track Systems helps companies track and optimize their pickups, from on-demand removal to integrated waste management.
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Funding: $105M
Solidia Technologies is a tech firm that makes it profitable to use CO₂ for manufacturing construction and industrial products.
Solidia Technologies is a tech firm that makes it profitable to use CO₂ for manufacturing construction and industrial products.
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Funding: $100M
Urban Mining Company has developed groundbreaking technology to cost effectively recycle rare earth magnets from discarded hard disk drives or motors, and reprocess them into high performance magnets that are critical components used for industrial, automotive, clean energy, and military defense.
Urban Mining Company has developed groundbreaking technology to cost effectively recycle rare earth magnets from discarded hard disk drives or motors, and reprocess them into high performance magnets that are critical components used for industrial, automotive, clean energy, and military defense.
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Funding: $100M
Mill offers a kitchen bin that dries, shrinks, and de-stinks leftover food, eliminating food waste.
Mill offers a kitchen bin that dries, shrinks, and de-stinks leftover food, eliminating food waste.
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Funding: $100M
Noveon Magnetics collects scooters, computer hard drives, MRI machines and motors from hybrid cars in order to separate out the old rare-earth magnets so they can be ground down and shaped into new ones.
Noveon Magnetics collects scooters, computer hard drives, MRI machines and motors from hybrid cars in order to separate out the old rare-earth magnets so they can be ground down and shaped into new ones.
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Funding: $95M
Biomason is a developer of a building materials technology that employs natural microorganisms to grow bio cement in ambient temperatures.
Biomason is a developer of a building materials technology that employs natural microorganisms to grow bio cement in ambient temperatures.
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Funding: $85.2M
Recyclebank inspires and rewards smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future.
Recyclebank inspires and rewards smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future.
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Funding: $76.6M
Circ recycles discarded clothing to produce the basis of petroleum- and plant-based fabrics. Circ’s virgin-equivalent, market-grade dissolving pulp and petroleum monomers can be sold at the same cost as virgin materials to manufacturers who make fibres. Whether cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, nylon or other fibres, we aim to cost-effectively recycle these materials using water as a solvent. This makes our tech a clean and economical alternative in the recycling industry.
Circ recycles discarded clothing to produce the basis of petroleum- and plant-based fabrics. Circ’s virgin-equivalent, market-grade dissolving pulp and petroleum monomers can be sold at the same cost as virgin materials to manufacturers who make fibres. Whether cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, nylon or other fibres, we aim to cost-effectively recycle these materials using water as a solvent. This makes our tech a clean and economical alternative in the recycling industry.
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Funding: $65.1M
Smarter Sorting is a machine learning for waste. Smarter Sorting allows municipalities to take waste of extreme negative value and use our proprietary software to sort that waste into high value commodities that are sold into established markets.
Smarter Sorting is a machine learning for waste. Smarter Sorting allows municipalities to take waste of extreme negative value and use our proprietary software to sort that waste into high value commodities that are sold into established markets.
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Funding: $64.1M
Nth Cycle is a metal processing technology company working with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals.
Nth Cycle is a metal processing technology company working with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals.
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Funding: $$63M
CleanFiber is a construction manufacturing company that makes building insulation from recycled corrugated cardboard.
CleanFiber is a construction manufacturing company that makes building insulation from recycled corrugated cardboard.
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Funding: $58.2M
Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that recommends what to order everyday. The company uses machine learning in order to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits.
Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that recommends what to order everyday. The company uses machine learning in order to help grocery stores dial in their orders to minimize waste and maximize profits.
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Funding: $55M
Brimstone Energy is producing mass-market, zero-carbon Portland cement, a key building material.
Brimstone Energy is producing mass-market, zero-carbon Portland cement, a key building material.
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Funding: $54.3M
Heirloom Carbon develops technology called carbon mineralization, to help minerals absorb CO2 from the ambient air in days, rather than years. By combining the best of engineering and nature, we can offer the most cost-effective and scalable Direct Air Capture solution in the world.
Heirloom Carbon develops technology called carbon mineralization, to help minerals absorb CO2 from the ambient air in days, rather than years. By combining the best of engineering and nature, we can offer the most cost-effective and scalable Direct Air Capture solution in the world.
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Funding: $54.3M
Ocean carbon removal startup Running Tide crafts adaptive aquaculture techniques to optimize nature while amplifying flavor and health.
Ocean carbon removal startup Running Tide crafts adaptive aquaculture techniques to optimize nature while amplifying flavor and health.
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Funding: $54.4M
VitroLabs develops a platform that manufactures real leather using stem cell-based technologies.
VitroLabs develops a platform that manufactures real leather using stem cell-based technologies.
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Funding: $52.5M
Sortera Alloys brings state-of-the-art artificial intelligence image/data analytics and advanced sensors to the industrial scrap metal recycling and re-use industry. It's focused on converting recycled material from vehicles into new tech products
Sortera Alloys brings state-of-the-art artificial intelligence image/data analytics and advanced sensors to the industrial scrap metal recycling and re-use industry. It's focused on converting recycled material from vehicles into new tech products