Top 10 Electronics (e-Waste) Recycling startups

Updated: February 24, 2024

Electronics recycling startups are driving the development of state-of-the-art technologies, including automated dismantling systems, advanced material recovery techniques, and environmentally-friendly e-waste processing methods, to efficiently and sustainably extract valuable components and precious metals from discarded electronics, minimizing electronic waste, and promoting the responsible reuse and recycling of electronic devices.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.8B
Redwood Materials is a advanced technology and process development for materials recycling, re-manufacturing, and reuse.
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Country: France | Funding: $1B
Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics.
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Country: China | Funding: $877.6M
Aihuishou is a bidding-based C2B platform for recycling and selling second-hand electronic items such as mobile phones.
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Country: USA | 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.
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Country: India | Funding: $222.8M
Cashify.in is an e-commerce platform for reselling used electronic gadgets.
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Country: Finland | Funding: $169.4M
Swappie is a technology company which allows refurbished phones to go mainstream. Swappie operates in EU & Nordics and is growing strongly.
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Country: Austria | Funding: $131M
Refurbed is a marketplace for refurbished electronics, which are used products that are completely renewed and resold.
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Country: USA | 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.
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Country: China | Funding: $89.3M
Huishoubao is a Shenzhen-based mobile phone recycling start-up.
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Country: USA | Funding: $6M
TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. TerraCycle recycles non-recyclable waste into various consumer products.
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Country: Singapore | Funding: $50.3M
APAC's leading marketplace for refurbished & sustainable electronics.
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Country: USA | Funding: $36.5M
BlueOak Resources develops distributed mini-refineries that extract precious minerals and rare earth elements from e-waste.
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Country: New Zealand | Funding: NZ$60M
Developing a biometallurgical processes that use microbes to capture value from metal waste streams while mitigating environmental harm.
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Country: India | Funding: $28.6M
Attero is an integrated end to end electronics asset management company aiming at increasing value for all electronic inventories.
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Country: UAE | Funding: $23M
Cartlow is the first App in the region that provides you with a simple way to buy Pre-owned, Open-box and Clearance stock while providing you with certified products, warranty, and easy returns. Cartlow also provides you with a simple way to sell your old mobile and get cash in return.
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Country: Romania | Funding: €8.4M
Flip buys used smartphones from customers, refurbishes them and resells them at competitive prices.
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Country: UK | Funding: $1.9M
Jiva has developed a fully recyclable and biodegradable PCB substrate – Soluboard.
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Country: India
Namo ewaste is a pioneer in asset management and electronics recycling, with its top of the line services to efficiently manage, dispose and recycle discarded electronic items.
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Country: USA
Ridwell recycles items such as batteries, light bulbs and textiles not typically accepted by existing recycling services.
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Country: USA
Retrievr makes it easy to return value to unwanted clothing, shoes and electronics.
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Country: USA
All Green Recycling is a full-service industrial, commercial and consumer e-waste recycling company.
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Country: USA | Funding: $957.9K
TG Companies makes the solar industry sustainable by providing recycling service and equipment for end-of-life solar cells and modules. The chemical concoction developed by TG Companies is used to extract silver, tin, copper, and lead from the cells, leaving behind silicon.
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Country: USA | Funding: $325K
Cybercrunch provides nationwide electronics recycling and hard drive shredding services in US.
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Country: Canada | Funding: CA$125K
Pyrocycle develops a non-polluting and cost-effective technology for recycling electronic waste. The method not only prevents environmental pollution, but develops a circular economy and recovers precious resources that could improve the environment.
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Country: India | Funding: $70K
Zolopik is an Online Platform that will help you to sell Electrical and Electronic Scrap Online, Zolopik will help corporates to get 100% Compliance for E-Waste Disposal.
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Country: Malaysia | Funding: MYR250K
ERTH is a social enterprise that specializes in collecting and recycling electronic waste from households and businesses.
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Country: Ghana | Funding: $10.5K
Appcyclers transforms old, broken refrigerators into egg incubators.
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Country: India
Eco Recycling is intended to manage end of life electrical & electronic waste in an organized manner employing necessary technology & methodology to derive commercial objective and also to protect ecology & environment.
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Country: India
Delhi-based e-waste management startup Karma Recycling focuses on conserving resources through systematic collection, reuse, dismantling and recycling of electronic waste.
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Country: USA
Based in downtown Los Angeles, Isidore Electronics recycling offers certified e-waste recycling, data destruction, and IT asset recovery services.
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Country: India
Binbag Recycling enables circular integration in the electronics supply chain by recycling e-waste and recovering precious materials, helps producers of Electrical & Electronic Equipment (EEE) collect and channelise their end-of-life products to ensure environmentally sound management of such e-waste by working with various authorised recyclers across India.
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Country: India
Tvarita Phones is into refurbishing, repair, and replacement of premium smartphones in India.
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Country: India
SSL E-waste Management LLP provides customer-centric one stop technical solution and services through best environmental practices.
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Country: Egypt
Greenplace is an electronic waste recycling company based in Egypt and serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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Country: USA
Call2Recycle is a product stewardship program that provides no-cost battery and cellphone recycling solutions.
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Country: India
Recycling Villa is Specializes Disposal of E-Waste in proper and scientific Manner. We are authorized from State Pollution Control Board & Central Pollution Control Board. We help Organization in economical & responsible Disposal of E -waste through techniques that have taken years to develop, we’ve created a way to turn end-of-life E-Waste.
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Country: India
Spas Recycling is a certified e-waste management and recycling company.
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Country: India
ECO GREEN INDIA, is engaged in handling, recycling and reusing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment(WEEE) in coo friendly way. The initiative is to aim at reducing the accumulation of used and discarded electronic and electrical equipment’s, which most end up in landfills or partly recycled in a unhygienic conditions by backyard recyclers and then partly thrown into waste streams damaging the environment.
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Country: Canada
enim offers metals extraction technology from circuit board. enim can recover metals such as palladium, gold, silver, copper, platinum, aluminum, zinc, tin and lead.
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Country: India
Ecoverva is a Precious Metal Refining & E-Waste Recycling Company. It is one of the reputed organizations working in Catalytic Converter, E-Waste Recycling, Auto Dismantling, EPR provider.
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Country: India
E-Waste recycler all over India with Disposing and Recycling Solutions.
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Country: USA
Computer Recycling is a leading electronics recycling company committed to helping customers dispose of obsolete or unwanted electronic equipment.
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Country: USA
Verdant develops resource recovery technologies - focusing on neglected waste streams - to enable environmental conservation, resource retention, and supply chain resiliency. It recovers cobalt, zinc, gold, lithium and silver from electronics waste.
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Country: India
Green Roots Waste Management specializes in the environmentally responsible and cost-effective disposal of electronic waste nationwide. Their extensive recycling services allow for eco-friendly and efficient waste disposal, making their facility one of the most sustainable in the country with zero waste discharge technology. The company is committed to providing dependable, affordable, and sustainable EEE waste management solutions.
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Country: India
E-scrappy Recyclers propose a progressive approach to the disposal of IT Assets and End of Life Electronics with Zero Landfill using an eco-friendly recycling methodology for all Electronic and Electrical Equipments.
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Country: Singapore
VANS Chemistry is a one stop solution provider for all E-Resource requirements such as integrated recycling, recovery & refining. The company operates on certain key principles such as preservation of natural resources, protection of IP, reclaiming of valuable resources & strategic metals and lastly but most importantly putting it back into Indian supply chain