Top 10 Smart City Waste Management startups

Updated: February 08, 2024

Smart city waste management startups are driving the development of advanced technologies, such as IoT-based waste monitoring systems, real-time data analytics platforms, and intelligent routing algorithms, to effectively and efficiently manage waste collection, optimize resource allocation, and promote sustainable waste management practices in urban areas, leading to reduced operational costs, improved cleanliness, and enhanced environmental sustainability within cities.
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Country: USA | Funding: $280M
Advanced Disposal brings fresh ideas and solutions to the business of a clean environment.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $86.7M
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.
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Country: Finland | Funding: $55.4M
Enevo is a forward-thinking company with a vision to transform the financial, environmental and social impact of waste. Thanks to Enevo’s sensor and analytic software, you only pay for the pick-ups you need and that reduces your costs.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: $19.4M
Ecube Labs develops smart waste management solutions and remote monitoring tools. Its line of products include solar-powered waste compacting bins, ultrasonic fill-level sensors that can be fitted to any type of container, and a data and predictive analytic clean city platform.
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Country: USA | Funding: $12.6M
Nordsense offers a simple and affordable solution that optimizes waste collection processes. Whether you represent a city, waste operator or organization that handles waste management, our system can drastically reduce your capital expenditure and carbon footprint, while improving workflows.
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Country: Slovakia | Funding: €12.6M
Sensoneo is a global enterprise-grade smart waste management solution provider that enables cities and businesses to manage their waste efficiently, be more environmentally responsible and improve the well-being of people. The solution combines unique ultrasonic Smart Sensors that monitor waste in real-time with sophisticated software providing cities and businesses with digital transformation, data-driven decision making, and optimization of waste collection routes, frequencies and vehicle loads.
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.9M
Recyclops, uses an Uber-like model to bring waste collection to areas where it wouldn’t be feasible otherwise.
8
Country: Ireland
SmartBin is the global leader in remote monitoring and management systems for the waste management industry. Their focus is on solving problems by providing innovative technology solutions that cut costs and emissions, and help to optimize business processes leading directly to increased profits for their clients.
9
Country: UK
Whitespace Work Software is the leading provider of waste and environmental solutions in the UK. We help our customers to deliver a more efficient service by providing them with the most innovative waste management software and environmental solution on the market.
10
Country: India
Citizengage is a waste-to-resource technology startup that has built an end-to-end waste management system that helps communities and businesses manage their waste at source.
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11
Country: USA
Bigbelly transforms the way organizations manage waste & recycling, while saving time, fuel and money and beautifying their public space.
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Country: India | Funding: ₹60M
Saahas Zero Waste is a social enterprise that provides end-to-end waste management services.
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Country: India | Funding: $225K
ExtraCarbon provides on-demand kabadiwala service to collect recyclable waste from homes and commercial areas. Sell your waste & old items to us for cash or shopping credits. Make money right from your home. No we are not joking, sell your waste to us & earn a lot from it.
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Country: | Funding: €180K
Pixies is developing a small army of autonomous litter pickers, capable of sweeping through urban environments collecting trash.
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Country: India | Funding: ₹12.5M
Hasiru Dala provides waste management solutions to apartments, corporate offices and at events, and also helps design, set up and maintain urban gardens.
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Country: India | Funding: $42.8K
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Country: India
Vital Waste provides recycling solutions to residential communities, schools and corporate offices in Kolkata.
18
Country: Sweden
Smart Recycling is a provider of cost-effective recycling solutions for office and commercial properties in Stockholm.
19
Country: Morocco
Clean City is an application to help clean up polluted cities, with the app communities can report polluted areas via the app.
20
Country: India
Greenrich Grow India is into a new and time tested concept of recycling waste with Fungal Inoculum that are important as decomposers and in retaining nutrients in the soil. We strive to create a better environment for ourselves and our future generations.