Top 10 Recycling Marketplace startups

Updated: April 12, 2024

Recycling Marketplace startups create digital platforms where businesses and individuals can buy, sell, or trade recyclable materials, promoting a circular economy. By connecting producers of waste materials with potential buyers, these platforms not only facilitate efficient recycling processes but also contribute significantly to reducing environmental impact.
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Country: France | Funding: $1B
Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: $205M
Danggeun Market develops an online secondhand marketplace that connects buyers and sellers within a neighborhood.
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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: France | Funding: $60.6M
Upway is building Europe's leading marketplace for reconditioned e-bikes.
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Country: Singapore | Funding: $50.3M
APAC's leading marketplace for refurbished & sustainable electronics.
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Country: UK | Funding: $25M
Safi (previously TrueCircle) is building a marketplace to support waste processing facilities in selling the verified material they reclaim.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $3.7M
cirplus is building the global marketplace for circular plastics.
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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: Czech Republic | Funding: €1.9M
Cyrkl is a waste2Resource marketplace that enables companies to exchange any excess materials waste or products.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2M
HaulShare is an online marketplace that connects customers in need of junk removal services to local haulers.
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Country: Bangladesh | Funding: $2M
Recycle Jar is the largest waste materials marketplace in Bangladesh
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Country: UK | Funding: £750K
Globechain helps businesses reduce waste by providing a reuse marketplace for listing unneeded items. All items are free for collection by charities, SMEs and individuals.
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Country: Nigeria | Funding: $635K
Digital marketplace for waste, recycling, and smart enforcement.
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Country: Belarus | Funding: $630K
Giveaway developed a marketplace platform to help people match up their unwanted stuff with others who are excited to get it
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Country: Nigeria
OkwuEco is a marketplace platform to smooth solid waste disposal and encourage recycling
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Country: USA
WastePlace is a waste and recycling marketplace that connects customers to thousands of waste management service providers.
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Country: Netherlands
EME offers a safe and secure cloud-based marketplace on which companies can exchange their excess materials business-to-business.
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Country: India
Indian marketplace for Exchange of Plastic Credit Certificates which enable organizations to affirm conformity with the Extended Producer Responsibility. A plastic credit model is envisaged where a producer is not required to recycle their own packaging, but to ensure that an equivalent amount of packaging waste has been recovered and recycled to meet their obligation.
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Country: USA
Rewilder is an online marketplace for waste materials and upcycling industrial materials.
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Country: Australia
Superyard is a marketplace built to serve the construction industry to connect buyers and sellers of unused materials sitting in yards all over Australia. Ritchie’s lightbulb moment came when he had trouble finding materials and used his retail and technology experience to create a service to power the construction industry’s circular and sharing economy.
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Country: France
MikaCycle is a global marketplace for high-quality recycled plastic.
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Country: USA
RecycleMax is the ultimate marketplace for global recycling and waste management.
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Country: Singapore
Scrapc.com is a premier destination for buying and selling scrap and recycled products in bulk. Find high-quality materials at competitive prices, all conveniently available on our user-friendly marketplace.
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Country: New Zealand
Buddy is a relationship-led marketplace built for scrappies, by scrappies.