Top 10 Military Waste Recycling startups

Updated: February 24, 2024

Military waste recycling startups are developing advanced treatment processes for hazardous materials, and efficient material recovery methods, to effectively and sustainably recycle military waste, including equipment, vehicles, and packaging materials, reducing waste generation, minimizing environmental impact, and promoting resource conservation within the military sector.
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Country: USA | Funding: $22.6M
Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste and defense waste storage or disposal
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Country: USA | Funding: $22M
Enexor BioEnergy’s technology can divert organic and plastic waste away from landfills and convert it into clean, on-site renewable energy.
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Country: USA
Fiber Brokers International, LLC specializes in the secure destruction and recycling of aged ballistic body armor, as well as other ballistic and non-ballistic materials.
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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: UK | Funding: £150K
Disarmco was formed in 2012 as a services business targeting munitions disposal.
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Country: Poland | Funding: €50K
JAKUSZ has particular expertise in the field of safe disassembling and disposal of almost all types of conventional ammunition as well as recycling of materials obtained from that process for their reuse in the civil industry.
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Country: India
Sepoi is upcycling old Army uniforms into trendy bags
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Country: USA
Gradient Technology offers a variety of ammunition and hazardous item demilitarization (demil) solutions that focus on advancing environmentally friendly resource recovery and reclamation (R3) technologies.
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Country: USA
PIKA International is demilitarizing and recycling small arms ammunition, provides a safer and environmentally friendly way to mitigate this hazard.
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Country: USA
User-Friendly Recycling has created a bullet recycling system.