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Top 27 Agricultural Crop Recycling startups
Mar 09, 2025 | By Marjana Bačić | 30 |
These startups develop new crop recycling technologies such as biofuel production, precision nutrient recovery, anaerobic digestion for methane production, cover crop integration, composting for soil health enhancement, crop residue pyrolysis, microbial fermentation for bioproducts.
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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: UK | Funding: £2.1M
UPP (Upcycled Plant Power) replaces hand-labour, delivering fresh broccoli and the 80% for uppcycling
UPP (Upcycled Plant Power) replaces hand-labour, delivering fresh broccoli and the 80% for uppcycling
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Country: USA | Funding: $9.1M
Circular Systems transform waste into a valuable fiber, yarn, and textile fabrics for the fashion industry.
Circular Systems transform waste into a valuable fiber, yarn, and textile fabrics for the fashion industry.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $126.8M
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: Germany | Funding: €39M
Traceless has developed a technique for transforming agricultural industry residues into a biodegradable substitute for cling-film and other packaging.
Traceless has developed a technique for transforming agricultural industry residues into a biodegradable substitute for cling-film and other packaging.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $33.9M
3PLW develops a process that can convert food waste into feedstock for biodegradable plastics. The process involves breaking down raw organic waste and then fermenting it to create a “soup” after which the solids and liquids are separated.
3PLW develops a process that can convert food waste into feedstock for biodegradable plastics. The process involves breaking down raw organic waste and then fermenting it to create a “soup” after which the solids and liquids are separated.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $33.4M
Woodland Biofuels develops technology ti produce cellulosic ethanol from waste biomass, such as wood chips and agricultural waste.
Woodland Biofuels develops technology ti produce cellulosic ethanol from waste biomass, such as wood chips and agricultural waste.
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Country: USA | Funding: $28.6M
Sweetwater Energy is a company that produces concentrated sugar from multiple non-food plant materials (from agricultural residues to harvested wood).
Sweetwater Energy is a company that produces concentrated sugar from multiple non-food plant materials (from agricultural residues to harvested wood).
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Country: France | Funding: €20.5M
A French biotechnology company that uses precision fermentation to produce real dairy products, accessible to everyone.
A French biotechnology company that uses precision fermentation to produce real dairy products, accessible to everyone.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €10M
BIO-LUTIONS offers sustainable packaging and disposable tableware solutions made of agricultural residues.
BIO-LUTIONS offers sustainable packaging and disposable tableware solutions made of agricultural residues.
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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: USA | Funding: $7.4M
Glanris makes a sustainable, low cost hybrid filtration media that removes organics as well as metals from water. Its Biocarbon is made from the largest agricultural waste, rice husks, allowing for global expansion of our carbon-negative technology to reduce greenhouse gasses and sequester carbon at gigaton scale.
Glanris makes a sustainable, low cost hybrid filtration media that removes organics as well as metals from water. Its Biocarbon is made from the largest agricultural waste, rice husks, allowing for global expansion of our carbon-negative technology to reduce greenhouse gasses and sequester carbon at gigaton scale.
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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: $5.3M
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: Italy | Funding: €300K
Vegea turns waste from wine production into a bio-textile for clothing, creating an environmentally friendly alternative to synthetic textile production which uses 100 million tons of oil a year.
Vegea turns waste from wine production into a bio-textile for clothing, creating an environmentally friendly alternative to synthetic textile production which uses 100 million tons of oil a year.
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Country: Mexico | Funding: $109.5K
Xilinat is transforming agricultural waste into a sugar substitute. Their product looks and tastes like sugar, is safe for diabetics, low in calories and protects teeth against cavities.
Xilinat is transforming agricultural waste into a sugar substitute. Their product looks and tastes like sugar, is safe for diabetics, low in calories and protects teeth against cavities.
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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: Germany
Seraplant offers recycled phosphorus-based fertilizers to promote sustainable agriculture. The startup’s process involves mixing sewage sludge ash to make it reactive to chemical bonding, before spraying, granulating, and fractionating the waste. Moreover, the process does not produce dangerous intermediate products and toxic exhaust gases. The fertilizer also contains significantly lower proportions of uranium and cadmium, making it ideal for agriculture.
Seraplant offers recycled phosphorus-based fertilizers to promote sustainable agriculture. The startup’s process involves mixing sewage sludge ash to make it reactive to chemical bonding, before spraying, granulating, and fractionating the waste. Moreover, the process does not produce dangerous intermediate products and toxic exhaust gases. The fertilizer also contains significantly lower proportions of uranium and cadmium, making it ideal for agriculture.
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Country: Bulgaria
Biomyc revolutionizes the packaging industry by developing innovative packaging solutions from sustainable feedstocks. Their fully biodegradable materials provide thermal insulation and impact protection to your products.
Biomyc revolutionizes the packaging industry by developing innovative packaging solutions from sustainable feedstocks. Their fully biodegradable materials provide thermal insulation and impact protection to your products.
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Country: USA
Chapul develops modular insect farms that process diverted agricultural waste streams into dried insect larvae for food and fertilizer and also reduces agriculture water usage.
Chapul develops modular insect farms that process diverted agricultural waste streams into dried insect larvae for food and fertilizer and also reduces agriculture water usage.
