Top 8 Food Recycling startups in UK

Updated: February 08, 2024

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Funding: $53.1M
OLIO is a free app that connects neighbours to ensure that surplus food and other items are shared instead of being wasted. The location-based app and website let users list and post a photo of the unwanted food items that will otherwise go waste.
2
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.
3
Funding: $41.9M
Winnow developed smart kitchen tech to help commercial kitchens reduce food waste
4
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.
5
Funding: £2.7M
Keenan Recycling is a food waste recycling company who provides reliable and regular collections across the whole of Scotland.
6
Funding: £939K
Revive Eco is to bring new life to coffee waste. It extracts natural chemicals from the coffee grounds which form the basis for a substitute to palm oil and thereby offer a more environmentally friendly alternative for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.
7
Funding: $132K
Chemicle is developing a chemical process to convert components of cheese whey into bio-plastic precursors. These are the building blocks of totally recyclable polymers, whose production could decrease CO2 emissions during the manufacturing phase up to 70%.
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Funding: $94.7K
Kitche is a free app that keeps track of the food you have in your fridge and the food you buy, so you don’t have to worry about buying too much and throwing food away.