Top 10 Bioplastic and Eco Packaging startups

Updated: March 04, 2024

Eco packaging startups are developing sustainable material alternatives, biodegradable and compostable packaging solutions, optimized packaging designs, consumer reward mechanics to effectively and sustainably reduce the environmental impact of packaging, promoting the use of renewable and recyclable materials, minimizing waste generation, and supporting a more eco-friendly approach to product packaging and distribution.
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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.
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Country: USA | 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.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $130M
TIPA manufactures bio-based, fully compostable packaging for the food and fashion industry. It compares its packaging material to orange peel, decomposing in 180 days in compost conditions.
4
Country: UK
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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Country: USA | Funding: $121.1M
Ecovative Design is a biomaterials company that makes biodegradable packaging from mushrooms
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Country: Germany | Funding: €58M
air up is a provider of drinking bottle system that provides scent-flavored water.
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Country: UK | Funding: £35M
Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25.3M
Cruz Foam is a circular materials company offering certified compostable, protective packaging foam and other solutions
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Country: USA | Funding: $24.1M
Vericool is replacing plastic coolers and packaging with plant-based products
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Country: USA | Funding: $22M
Boox is a container and packaging company that reduces the environmental damage of online consumerism.
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Country: UK | 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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Country: Canada | Funding: $15.1M
Genecis is an early-stage organic waste processing startup that uses biotechnology to convert waste into high value materials.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $13.1M
RECUP is your reusable deposit system for coffee-to-go paper cups. RECUP is made up of material that can be recycled, but it also helps that it can be used more than once, given they are properly maintained and cleaned
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Country: Germany | Funding: €10M
BIO-LUTIONS offers sustainable packaging and disposable tableware solutions made of agricultural residues.
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Country: New Zealand | Funding: NZ$14M
Noissue is a global packaging platform, wants to make sustainable packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes.
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Country: France | Funding: €7.6M
Lactips created a water soluble and biodegradable thermoplastic pellets based on casein, a milk protein. They can be used to make a variety of packaging materials including food.
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Country: USA | Funding: $7M
Ecologic Brands is a provider of sustainable packaging specializing in the paper bottle and paper-based packaging solutions.
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Country: USA | Funding: $6.7M
Loop is all about creating a circular system, in which containers and other receptacles are reused, rather than disposed of and then recycled.
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Country: USA
Crossroads Paper recycles paper and operates containerboard mill in Utah
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.3M
Verity is a startup making packaging for personal care products, producing curbside-recyclable aluminum options in lieu of hard-to-recycle plastic.
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.3M
Returnity is the pioneer and market leader in reusable shipping boxes, bags and envelopes for eCommerce and beyond
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Country: UK | Funding: £2.6M
Again develops system to clean reusable packaging and prepare it for refill and reuse
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Country: USA | Funding: $3M
Nohbo operates as a sustainable beauty & personal care technology company. The company houses its shampoos, conditioners, body washes, and shaving creams in a water-soluble membrane that dissolves during use.
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Country: Denmark | Funding: €2.4M
Cellugy harnesses the power of bio-fabrication to produce advanced bio-cellulose materials through a disruptive biotechnological process, partnering with packaging and chemical companies to enable circularity in the end-of-life as an alternative to conventional materials.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.5M
Impacked is the online marketplace for primary packaging, that is bringing green tech to the forefront for everything from jars, tubes and pouches to bottles.
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Country: UK | Funding: £1.9M
Flexi-Hex has developed a patented packaging sleeve made entirely from paper. This sustainable alternative offers robust protection for items while remaining easily compostable and recyclable at home.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩2.8B
Innerbottle provides an innovative containing solution ensuring zero waste and sustainable environment. Since a unified container with only plastic materials is collected and recycled through a dedicated system, plastic resources can be quickly and completely recycled 100%.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $2M
MadeRight offers a natural additive that enhances sustainable packaging. The startup is deploying fermentation technology to cultivate fungi grown on organic industrial waste such as wood chips, to produce sustainable materials that are biodegradable and free from pollutants to create a recyclable plastic alternative for packaging.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €1.8M
Recyda’s software helps packaging producers, brand owners and retailers in the consumer goods sector assess the recyclability of packaging – one of the first steps towards reducing waste.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $1.5M
Solutum is developing a unique formula for plastic bags that dissolve in water
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.4M
Mango Materials produces a naturally occurring biopolymer from waste biogas (methane) that are economically competitive with conventional oil-based plastics.
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Country: UK | Funding: $1.1M
Skipping Rocks Lab develops natural and biodegradable packaging for liquids made from seaweed extract.
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Country: Israel
Melodea developed technology for the extraction and industrial production of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) from wood pulp and paper production side streams. It extracts CNCs and using them to produce products like water-based adhesives, paints and coatings, or eco-friendly foams.
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Country: India | Funding: $1M
Ecovia is India's first returnable packaging solution for E-Commerce and Hyperlocal brands.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $700K
Valentis Nanotech develops platform that combines nanoparticles with cellulose nanocrystals (essentially, a form of plant pulp waste) to produce unique coatings and compounds. For example, they’re working on a strong flexible food packaging material that could offer an alternative to aluminum foil.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €600K
circolution is a reusable food packaging startup that creates a solution that makes a contribution to reducing the waste problem.
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Country: UK | Funding: $522K
Bpacks is a startup that has developed the first bark packaging technology that integrates easily into existing production streams, replacing plastic materials.
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: $477.3K
Lyfa delivers grocery items to people’s doors in reusable packaging that is then picked up during the next delivery.
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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.
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Country: India | Funding: $175K
Zerocircle produces bags made of seaweed that are designed to degrade like any living organism, leaving nothing but compost behind
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Country: Belgium | Funding: €110K
Do Eat created a bioplastic derived from potato industry residues like potato peel, wash water, and beer waste.
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Country: Estonia | Funding: $120K
S.Lab produces sustainable packaging produced at an industrial scale.
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Country: USA | Funding: $50K
Magnomer is a manufacturer of novel magnetic inks for plastic packaging for the circular economy.
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Country: Colombia | Funding: $50K
Lifepack produces biodegradable packaging made from natural fibers and seeds.
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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.
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Country: Canada | Funding: CA$10.4K
Tuf Candy developed dessert spoons and small glasses that are made entirely of 100% natural cane sugar. The packaging is 100% recyclable.
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Country: New Zealand
R3pack is a packaging company which provides compostable and recycled courier options.
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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.
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Country: Australia
RETURNR is an environmental initiative that aims to replace single use takeaway packaging with equivalent reusable solutions.
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Country: Germany
Arekapak created a sustainable packaging design from the areca palm leaf that it claims requires less water and energy consumption for production without added chemical substances.