Top 16 Medical Waste Recycling startups

Nov 30, 2024 | By Marjana Bačić

These startups develop new medical waste recycling technologies such as autoclaving for sterilization and recovery, plasma gasification for energy generation, enzymatic treatment for waste breakdown, advanced shredding and sorting systems, chemical disinfection followed by material recovery, etc.
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Country: Spain | Funding: €2.1M
ReCircula Solutions offers waste management solution for the urban cities and pharmaceutical industries. It includes waste container device with IoT sensor, AI for waste identification, mobile app for citizens to earn points. It allows waste managers and city councils to apply the correct reward mechanism in order to increase packaging recycling rates.
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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: USA | Funding: $6.8M
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: USA | Funding: $7.1M
Stericycle develops industry-leading biohazardous, medical, sharps, and pharmaceutical waste disposal and compliance training solutions
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Country: USA | Funding: $6.2M
Polycarbin intends to reduce the carbon footprint of innovation and the environmental impact of healthcare.
6
Country: Canada
EcoMed Services is an innovative medical waste disposal and recycling company that specializes in providing environmental and healthcare integrated waste treatment and disposal solutions through the use of clean sustainable technology that meets strict national and international safety standards and regulations.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.3M
Sterilis provides a safer, faster, easier and more environmentally sustainable method for removing highly regulated medical waste (RMW), including used needles
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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.
9
Country: India | Funding: $829.3K
PadCare Labs is an innovation driven company solving unmet need of menstrual waste management.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $10K
Unbound Chemicals collects, sorts, extracts, and reuses the active pharmaceutical ingredients from unused medication.
11
Country: India
One of the Leading Service Providers for Bio-Medical Waste Management in India.
12
Country: USA
Go Green offers medical waste disposal and sharps disposal, OSHA compliance training, digital marketing solutions, infection and odor control
13
Country: Zimbabwe
Wastinnova is a leader in innovative services and products targeting to simplify healthcare waste management, decrease biohazard waste disposed and increase recycling through an environmentally sustainable methods. We also carry out researchs to test effectiveness of other innovative modern methods to manage healthcare waste.
14
Country: Belgium
Woosh provides a delivery and collection service of diapers for nurseries.
15
Country: Israel
Boson’s Hydrogen-capable Plasma Assisted Gasification technology (HPAG) produces Hydrogen for direct local use from a wide range of non-recyclable solid wastes (including medical and hazardous wastes) by applying high-temperature thermochemical recycling.
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Country: Australia
Cleanaway Waste Management provides waste management, recycling, and industrial services in Australia.
Editor: Marjana Bačić
Marjana Bačić is a senior editor for RecyclingStartups. She has has more than 5 years experience covering the recycling industry. Marjana graduated from University of Belgrade, where she edited Recycling and Sustainable Development Journal. She has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability. She also participates in beach clean-up initiatives and advocates for sustainable practices in local businesses. In her free time, Marjana enjoys hiking in the scenic Montenegrin countryside, practicing yoga for mindfulness, and experimenting with plant-based recipes in her kitchen. You can contact Marjana at marjanabacic(at)recyclingstartups(dot)com