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Top 10 Bio/Organic Waste Recycling startups in USA
Updated: April 12, 2024 | 23 |
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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: $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: $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: $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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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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Arbor Renewable Gas produces renewable gasoline and hydrogen from waste wood and forest residue.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
