Top 7 Recycling startups in Belgium
Nov 24, 2025
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Funding: $1.1B
Umicore specializes in the recycling of precious metals for lithium-ion and solid-state batteries and manufacturing of specialized products from precious metals (copper, cobalt, germanium, zinc, lithium). Umicore's catalytic portfolio includes chemical solutions, emissions control technologies and fuel cell technology. Its recycling technologies combine pyro- and hydrometallurgy, ensuring high recovery rates and reliability. Umicore also converts non-ferrous metals into functional high-tech materials. These range from germanium-based solutions that power satellites and facilitate autonomous vehicle sensors, to metallic coatings that enhance the performance of semiconductors and enable the production of clean hydrogen.
Umicore specializes in the recycling of precious metals for lithium-ion and solid-state batteries and manufacturing of specialized products from precious metals (copper, cobalt, germanium, zinc, lithium). Umicore's catalytic portfolio includes chemical solutions, emissions control technologies and fuel cell technology. Its recycling technologies combine pyro- and hydrometallurgy, ensuring high recovery rates and reliability. Umicore also converts non-ferrous metals into functional high-tech materials. These range from germanium-based solutions that power satellites and facilitate autonomous vehicle sensors, to metallic coatings that enhance the performance of semiconductors and enable the production of clean hydrogen.
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Funding: €6.5M
Resortecs manufactures sewing threads that disintegrate at high industrial temperatures. A continuous and automated disassembly line then allows the zippers and buttons to be removed from the textile parts, polyester and cotton to be separated and then sent to specific recyclers.
Resortecs manufactures sewing threads that disintegrate at high industrial temperatures. A continuous and automated disassembly line then allows the zippers and buttons to be removed from the textile parts, polyester and cotton to be separated and then sent to specific recyclers.
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Funding: $1.4M
Smartends Offers advanced bin sensors that monitor waste levels in real-time, providing crucial data for optimizing collection routes. This data-driven approach helps reduce operational costs, minimize carbon emissions, and improve overall efficiency in waste management.
Smartends Offers advanced bin sensors that monitor waste levels in real-time, providing crucial data for optimizing collection routes. This data-driven approach helps reduce operational costs, minimize carbon emissions, and improve overall efficiency in waste management.
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Funding: $101K
PolyPerception provides real-time end-to-end waste flow monitoring to plastics and material recovery facilities. It uses cameras and Artificial Intelligence to track and characterise every single object that flows through material recovery facilities.
PolyPerception provides real-time end-to-end waste flow monitoring to plastics and material recovery facilities. It uses cameras and Artificial Intelligence to track and characterise every single object that flows through material recovery facilities.
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Triple Helix is an investment firm that offers sutainable development, impact investing, chemistry, and capital investment.
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