Top 142 Plastic Recycling startups

Dec 06, 2024 | By Marjana Bačić

These startups develop new plastic recycling technologies such as chemical recycling, pyrolysis, depolymerization, solvent-based, enzymatic, microwave-assisted recycling or operate plastic recycling facilities.
1
Country: USA | Funding: $811.2M
PureCycle recycles polypropylene plastic without any residual odor, color or contaminants.
2
Country: Israel | Funding: $240.1M
The UBQ proprietary process converts Residual Municipal Solid Waste, destined to landfills, into novel bio-based UBQ Material, that can be used to make everyday durable products - with a reduced carbon footprint.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $172.7M
Agilyx created a solutions platform that can take a wide variety of waste plastics and polymers, and chemically recycle those plastics into high value synthetic oils, chemicals and in some cases back to basic monomers that can be used to re-manufacture products.
4
Country: Spain | Funding: £124M
Plastic Energy offers a sustainable solution to help prevent plastic pollution by transforming previously unrecyclable plastic waste into and optimal feedstock for making clean recycled plastics or alternative law-carbon fuels.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $150M
Nexus Circular is a leader in pyrolysis-based advanced plastics recycling.
6
Country: Germany | Funding: €130M
APK (APK Aluminium and Kunststoffe AG) has developed a chemical-physical process for recycling plastic waste that produces single-origin, new-quality plastics at low prices (Newcycling).
7
Country: Canada | Funding: $129.4M
Loop Industries is a leading sustainable plastics technology innovator. Loop owns patented and proprietary technology that depolymerizes no and low value waste PET plastic and polyester fiber, including plastic bottles and packaging, carpet
8
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €100M
Repeats Group is a plastics recycling platform focused on producing high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene.
9
Country: Australia | Funding: $107M
Samsara Eco uses enzyme-based technology to break down plastic into its core molecules
10
Country: Canada | Funding: $96.8M
Anaergia maximizes resource recovery from virtually any waste stream, transforming waste into renewable energy, clean water, high-quality fertilizer, and recyclables. Anaergia provides complete, integrated solutions for municipal solid waste management, resource recovery in wastewater sector, and large‐scale farming & food production waste management.
11
Country: France | Funding: €73M
Carbios is a chemistry company that focuses on discovering and developing enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and textile polymers.
12
Country: Netherlands
Morssinkhof Rymoplast is the plastic recycling company.
13
Country: USA
Revolution creates plastics that help preserve the environment.
14
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €42.5M
Ioniqa Technologies has a patented technology that uses magnetic colloidal systems with nanoparticles to break down PET into a re-usable monomer.
15
Country: Canada | Funding: $32.1M
Polystyvert is an innovative SME environmental company with a mission to recycle polystyrene
16
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €28M
Pryme is an innovative cleantech company focused on converting plastic waste into valuable products through low-carbon chemical recycling.
17
Country: Australia | Funding: $26M
Licella developed unique hydrothermal upgrading platform, the Cat-HTR, that can rapidly and economically transform a wide range of biomass, waste plastic and industry residues into a synthetic oil or biocrude to produce more sustainable fuels and chemicals.
18
Country: USA | Funding: $25.9M
Advanced upcycling company creating quality chemicals and materials made from plastic waste
19
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €20M
Urban Mining Corp enables plastic recycling through unique patented magnetic density separation technique
20
Country: USA | Funding: $20M
Ushering in a new era of sustainable and circular plastics. It engineers supercharged organisms to break down plastic and textile waste
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