Top 7 Metal Recycling startups in USA

Updated: May 11, 2024

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Funding: $260M
Aqua Metals is the only company that has produced a commercially proven sustainable, closed-loop metal recycling process that is capable of producing the world’s purest metals.
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Funding: $64.1M
Nth Cycle is a metal processing technology company working with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals.
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Funding: $52.5M
Sortera Alloys brings state-of-the-art artificial intelligence image/data analytics and advanced sensors to the industrial scrap metal recycling and re-use industry. It's focused on converting recycled material from vehicles into new tech products
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Funding: $3M
The galvanized steel industry produces a waste acid with high concentrations of dissolved zinc and iron. Zincovery developed a process that recovers the precious zinc and regenerates the acid for reuse and reducing waste in the process.
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MolyWorks has developed a recycling foundry which converts metallic scrap into metal powders for additive manufacturing at the point-of-need.
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ReCycle Bikes is a brand new business that hand-makes their bicycles with frames made of 80% recycled aluminum.
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VALIS builds AI-powered software that makes recycling more profitable, material supply chains more sustainable, and closes the loop on a circular economy for metal fabrication.