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Top 10 Bio/Organic Waste Recycling startups
Updated: April 12, 2024 | 23 |
Organic waste recycling startups are driving the development of cutting-edge technologies such as anaerobic digestion systems, composting methods, and innovative enzymatic processes to effectively and sustainably convert organic waste into valuable resources like biogas, compost, and nutrient-rich soil amendments, significantly reducing the environmental impact of organic waste disposal and promoting a circular economy for organic materials.
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Country: USA
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.
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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Country: Canada | Funding: $871.5M
Enerkem is a cleantech company transforming waste into transportation biofuels, renewable chemicals and everyday products.
Enerkem is a cleantech company transforming waste into transportation biofuels, renewable chemicals and everyday products.
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Country: USA | 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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Country: USA | 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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Country: Canada | Funding: $86.7M
Anaergia maximizes resource recovery from virtually any waste stream, transforming waste into renewable energy, clean water, high-quality fertilizer, and recyclables. Anaergia provides complete, integrated solutions for municipal solid waste management, resource recovery in wastewater sector, and large‐scale farming & food production waste management.
Anaergia maximizes resource recovery from virtually any waste stream, transforming waste into renewable energy, clean water, high-quality fertilizer, and recyclables. Anaergia provides complete, integrated solutions for municipal solid waste management, resource recovery in wastewater sector, and large‐scale farming & food production waste management.
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Country: Norway | Funding: $60.4M
Kebony produces sustainable softwood that behave like hardwood, using food waste.
Kebony produces sustainable softwood that behave like hardwood, using food waste.
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Country: UK | 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.
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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Country: Canada | Funding: $40.8M
Nexterra delivers advanced gasification systems to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power using waste fuels.
Nexterra delivers advanced gasification systems to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power using waste fuels.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $33.9M
TripleW upcycles food waste into high-demand, high-value lactic acid, the building block of PLA bioplastics.
TripleW upcycles food waste into high-demand, high-value lactic acid, the building block of PLA bioplastics.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $32.3M
Homebiogas develops bio-toilet which can convert human waste into cooking fuel sans the need to access sewers or water grids.
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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Country: USA | Funding: $28.7M
WasteFuel Agriculture is focusing on ways to create a waste-to-energy infrastructure where farmers can tap new business opportunities.
WasteFuel Agriculture is focusing on ways to create a waste-to-energy infrastructure where farmers can tap new business opportunities.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25.4M
Anellotech is a sustainable technology company focused on producing cost-competitive renewable chemicals from non-food biomass.
Anellotech is a sustainable technology company focused on producing cost-competitive renewable chemicals from non-food biomass.
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Country: USA
Arbor Renewable Gas produces renewable gasoline and hydrogen from waste wood and forest residue.
Arbor Renewable Gas produces renewable gasoline and hydrogen from waste wood and forest residue.
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Country: USA | Funding: $18.9M
Carbonwave is a leading developer of ultra-regenerative, plant-based, biomaterials from seaweed.
Carbonwave is a leading developer of ultra-regenerative, plant-based, biomaterials from seaweed.
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Country: USA | Funding: $16.2M
Spoiler Alert is a technology company that helps food businesses, farms and nonprofits better manage unsold food inventory. Spoiler Alert enables operators of food distribution and fulfillment centers to mitigate the impacts of unsold inventory and recover value from these under-utilized assets.
Spoiler Alert is a technology company that helps food businesses, farms and nonprofits better manage unsold food inventory. Spoiler Alert enables operators of food distribution and fulfillment centers to mitigate the impacts of unsold inventory and recover value from these under-utilized assets.
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Country: Germany
PreZero builds and operates state-of-the-art facilities that convert organic waste, plastics and paper into valuable raw materials and commodities.
PreZero builds and operates state-of-the-art facilities that convert organic waste, plastics and paper into valuable raw materials and commodities.
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Country: Ethiopia | Funding: $12.8M
Sustainable City Infrastructure, currently developing waste-to-energy projects in emerging market.
Sustainable City Infrastructure, currently developing waste-to-energy projects in emerging market.
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Country: USA | Funding: $12.3M
Goodr is a sustainable surplus food management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.
Goodr is a sustainable surplus food management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.
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Country: USA | Funding: $11.8M
Strella Biotechnology offers a biosensing platform that predicts the ripeness of fruit which reduces waste and improves product quality.
Strella Biotechnology offers a biosensing platform that predicts the ripeness of fruit which reduces waste and improves product quality.
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Country: Australia
Closed Loop are leaders in sustainability and landfill diversion. We are committed to building a circular economy by turning waste back into products that re-enter the local supply chain…eliminating future waste.
Closed Loop are leaders in sustainability and landfill diversion. We are committed to building a circular economy by turning waste back into products that re-enter the local supply chain…eliminating future waste.
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Country: India | Funding: $9.4M
Phool aims to solve the flower-temple-waste problem. It collects tonnes of floral waste from temples, which is handcrafted into charcoal-free incense, organic vermicompost, and biodegradable packaging material through their ‘flowercycling’ technology.
Phool aims to solve the flower-temple-waste problem. It collects tonnes of floral waste from temples, which is handcrafted into charcoal-free incense, organic vermicompost, and biodegradable packaging material through their ‘flowercycling’ technology.
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Country: India | Funding: $9.4M
Phool.co is a biomaterial startup, which uses floral waste to make patented organic fertilizer and incense sticks.
Phool.co is a biomaterial startup, which uses floral waste to make patented organic fertilizer and incense sticks.
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Country: UK | 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.
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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Country: USA | Funding: $7M
Inventure Chemicals develops an ethanol and biodiesel conversion process by using a variety of raw materials including algae and agribusiness waste.
Inventure Chemicals develops an ethanol and biodiesel conversion process by using a variety of raw materials including algae and agribusiness waste.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Recompose is a provider of services used to convert human remains into the soil.
Recompose is a provider of services used to convert human remains into the soil.
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Country: Japan | Funding: $4.5M
EF Polymer is an agricultural firm that provides products & sustainable input solutions to save water and fertilizer usage. It manufactures super absorbent polymer made from biowaste from juice shops that reduces the irrigation water & fertilizer requirement and help to get more yield without affecting the soil and crop.
EF Polymer is an agricultural firm that provides products & sustainable input solutions to save water and fertilizer usage. It manufactures super absorbent polymer made from biowaste from juice shops that reduces the irrigation water & fertilizer requirement and help to get more yield without affecting the soil and crop.
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Country: Ukraine | Funding: €2.6M
Releaf Paper is turning bio wastes into sustainable paper in the production of which not any single tree had been cut.
Releaf Paper is turning bio wastes into sustainable paper in the production of which not any single tree had been cut.
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Country: UK | Funding: £2.1M
SEaB Energy is an international specialist, UK based company, working in the renewable energy and energy from waste sectors. SEaB Energy has developed a compact easy to install turnkey Anaerobic Digestion (AD) systems in shipping container.
SEaB Energy is an international specialist, UK based company, working in the renewable energy and energy from waste sectors. SEaB Energy has developed a compact easy to install turnkey Anaerobic Digestion (AD) systems in shipping container.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.1M
Bion’s patented technology provides comprehensive livestock waste treatment and resource recovery. It integrates several systems and processes into one unified waste collection, treatment and recycling system.
Bion’s patented technology provides comprehensive livestock waste treatment and resource recovery. It integrates several systems and processes into one unified waste collection, treatment and recycling system.
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Country: Spain | Funding: €555K
Recycap Technologies develops and commercializes innovative and automated end-to-end coffee capsule recycling solutions and devices.
Recycap Technologies develops and commercializes innovative and automated end-to-end coffee capsule recycling solutions and devices.
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Country: Kenya | Funding: $309.4K
Biobuu Limited is an East African insect company that uses maggots for recycling organic waste - turning it into animal feed.
Biobuu Limited is an East African insect company that uses maggots for recycling organic waste - turning it into animal feed.
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Country: UK | Funding: $227.6K
AEROPOWDER is creating novel materials from surplus feathers. It developed world's first thermal packaging material made from surplus feathers.
AEROPOWDER is creating novel materials from surplus feathers. It developed world's first thermal packaging material made from surplus feathers.
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Country: South Africa | Funding: ZAR2.5M
Nambu Group operates as an insect protein company.
Nambu Group operates as an insect protein company.
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Country: Japan | Funding: ¥20M
Phytochem Products manufactures and sells plant-derived functional food ingredients, cosmetic raw materials, and pharmaceutical ingredients.
Phytochem Products manufactures and sells plant-derived functional food ingredients, cosmetic raw materials, and pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Country: UK | Funding: £30K
MarinaTex uses fish waste from the fishing industry to make an organic alternative to single-use plastic bags.
MarinaTex uses fish waste from the fishing industry to make an organic alternative to single-use plastic bags.
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Country: USA | Funding: $20K
Gen3Bio has proprietary technology that redirects waste algae from an environmental hazard into profitable environmentally friendly products fully integrated into the circular economy. This is accomplished by using a proprietary efficient low-cost enzymolysis process to extract fats, sugars and proteins to produce specialty chemicals.
Gen3Bio has proprietary technology that redirects waste algae from an environmental hazard into profitable environmentally friendly products fully integrated into the circular economy. This is accomplished by using a proprietary efficient low-cost enzymolysis process to extract fats, sugars and proteins to produce specialty chemicals.
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Country: USA | Funding: $20K
Perfect Circle Recycling (WOSB) provides a revolutionary alternative to traditional waste management and helps businesses divert waste from landfills, focus on sustainability, and create the perfect circle from waste - allowing it to be converted into useable forms, such as renewable energy, compost, and fertilizer.
Perfect Circle Recycling (WOSB) provides a revolutionary alternative to traditional waste management and helps businesses divert waste from landfills, focus on sustainability, and create the perfect circle from waste - allowing it to be converted into useable forms, such as renewable energy, compost, and fertilizer.
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Country: USA | Funding: $10K
Facet Power’s revolutionary technology is optimized to produce clean, green, high purity streams of hydrogen from biomass and organic waste.
Facet Power’s revolutionary technology is optimized to produce clean, green, high purity streams of hydrogen from biomass and organic waste.
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Country: India
Earth Recycler is a pioneer in providing integrated environmental friendly services, solutions, strongly committed to protecting the environment by improving the communities in which we work and live. Earth Recycler is equipped with a team of professionals who have proven expertise in developing sustainable and cost effective solutions for environmentally concerned clients. Our recycling initiatives are custom designed for various sectors from corporate organizations, educational institutions and residential apartments to the community at large.
Earth Recycler is a pioneer in providing integrated environmental friendly services, solutions, strongly committed to protecting the environment by improving the communities in which we work and live. Earth Recycler is equipped with a team of professionals who have proven expertise in developing sustainable and cost effective solutions for environmentally concerned clients. Our recycling initiatives are custom designed for various sectors from corporate organizations, educational institutions and residential apartments to the community at large.
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Country: USA
SustainRNG converts manure from the dairy industry into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).
SustainRNG converts manure from the dairy industry into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).
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Country: Turkey
Ottan Studio has made a name for itself converting food waste into bio-composite material from which it makes furniture, decorative items and wall paneling.
Ottan Studio has made a name for itself converting food waste into bio-composite material from which it makes furniture, decorative items and wall paneling.
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Country: Netherlands
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.
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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Country: France
Capillum develops innovative technology which utilises keratin from the wasted hair
Capillum develops innovative technology which utilises keratin from the wasted hair
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Country: USA
Ecotone Renewables has developed the “Seahorse”, which reinvents the food and plant waste disposal system, taking food that would otherwise be wasted and turning it into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer, through the process of anaerobic digestion.
Ecotone Renewables has developed the “Seahorse”, which reinvents the food and plant waste disposal system, taking food that would otherwise be wasted and turning it into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer, through the process of anaerobic digestion.
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Country: India
ZeroPlast has developed a 100% Home/Soil compostable material that can replace single-use plastics.
ZeroPlast has developed a 100% Home/Soil compostable material that can replace single-use plastics.
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Country: India
HelpUsGreen is the world’s first lean solution to the monumental ‘temple-waste’ problem. We have pioneered the ‘flowercycling’ technology to preserve the Rivers Ganges from becoming a religious sewer by up-cycling the monumental temple-waste in India.
HelpUsGreen is the world’s first lean solution to the monumental ‘temple-waste’ problem. We have pioneered the ‘flowercycling’ technology to preserve the Rivers Ganges from becoming a religious sewer by up-cycling the monumental temple-waste in India.
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Country: Switzerland
UNIWASTEC is a technology company that operates in the field of waste-to-energy production, namely Grade 5 green hydrogen directly from wastewater, synthetic gas from municipal or industrial solid waste, and synthetic catalytic fuels from biomass.
UNIWASTEC is a technology company that operates in the field of waste-to-energy production, namely Grade 5 green hydrogen directly from wastewater, synthetic gas from municipal or industrial solid waste, and synthetic catalytic fuels from biomass.
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Country: Croatia
Croteh is engaged in designing, engineering and developing technologies for processing, recovering biodegradable materials and waste.
Croteh is engaged in designing, engineering and developing technologies for processing, recovering biodegradable materials and waste.
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Country: Netherlands
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.
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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Country: Israel
Fabumin developed An novel, proprietary food industry substitute for albumin and emulsifiers.
Fabumin developed An novel, proprietary food industry substitute for albumin and emulsifiers.
