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Country: Canada | Funding: $871.5M
Enerkem is a cleantech company transforming waste into transportation biofuels, renewable chemicals and everyday products.
Enerkem is a cleantech company transforming waste into transportation biofuels, renewable chemicals and everyday products.
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Country: USA | Funding: $281.2M
Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol.
Fulcrum Bioenergy converts household garbage into low-carbon transportation fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and ethanol.
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Country: USA | Funding: $171M
Renmatix focuses on the production of cellulosic sugars from plant-based feedstocks for the improvement of bio-primarily based materials.
Renmatix focuses on the production of cellulosic sugars from plant-based feedstocks for the improvement of bio-primarily based materials.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $126.8M
Anaergia offers comprehensive, integrated solutions for municipal solid waste management, resource recovery in the wastewater sector and waste management for large agricultural and food processing enterprises. The company develops world-leading solutions for anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, organic matter recovery and biogas upgrading. Anaergia's anaerobic digestion technology has been implemented at over 1,000 facilities in more than 17 countries. The company provides customers with equipment or designs, finances, builds and operates complete biorefineries. The company's goal is to become the world's leading producer of renewable fuels while simultaneously reducing global carbon emissions.
Anaergia offers comprehensive, integrated solutions for municipal solid waste management, resource recovery in the wastewater sector and waste management for large agricultural and food processing enterprises. The company develops world-leading solutions for anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, organic matter recovery and biogas upgrading. Anaergia's anaerobic digestion technology has been implemented at over 1,000 facilities in more than 17 countries. The company provides customers with equipment or designs, finances, builds and operates complete biorefineries. The company's goal is to become the world's leading producer of renewable fuels while simultaneously reducing global carbon emissions.
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: €75M
BioBTX replaces oil for biomass & waste as a resource for the production of aromatics. With its technology, BioBTX can convert end-of-life waste plastics and biomass towards circular and sustainable chemical building blocks.
BioBTX replaces oil for biomass & waste as a resource for the production of aromatics. With its technology, BioBTX can convert end-of-life waste plastics and biomass towards circular and sustainable chemical building blocks.
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Country: Norway | Funding: $60.4M
Kebony produces sustainable softwood that behave like hardwood, using food waste.
Kebony produces sustainable softwood that behave like hardwood, using food waste.
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Country: UK | Funding: $45.7M
Too Good To Go is an app for fighting food waste. They fight food waste by helping food stores sell their surplus food instead of throwing it away. Their mission is to reduce food waste worlwide, and their vision is to create a world where food produced is food consumed.
Too Good To Go is an app for fighting food waste. They fight food waste by helping food stores sell their surplus food instead of throwing it away. Their mission is to reduce food waste worlwide, and their vision is to create a world where food produced is food consumed.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $43.8M
TripleW upcycles food waste into high-demand, high-value lactic acid, the building block of PLA bioplastics.
TripleW upcycles food waste into high-demand, high-value lactic acid, the building block of PLA bioplastics.
See also:
Top 10 Waste-to-Energy startups
Top 10 Waste-to-Energy startups
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Country: Canada | Funding: $40.8M
Nexterra delivers advanced gasification systems to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power using waste fuels.
Nexterra delivers advanced gasification systems to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power using waste fuels.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $32.3M
Homebiogas develops bio-toilet which can convert human waste into cooking fuel sans the need to access sewers or water grids.
Homebiogas develops bio-toilet which can convert human waste into cooking fuel sans the need to access sewers or water grids.
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Country: USA | Funding: $28.7M
WasteFuel Agriculture is focusing on ways to create a waste-to-energy infrastructure where farmers can tap new business opportunities.
WasteFuel Agriculture is focusing on ways to create a waste-to-energy infrastructure where farmers can tap new business opportunities.
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Country: USA | Funding: $25.4M
Anellotech is a sustainable technology company focused on producing cost-competitive renewable chemicals from non-food biomass.
Anellotech is a sustainable technology company focused on producing cost-competitive renewable chemicals from non-food biomass.
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Country: USA | Funding: $19M
Carbonwave is a leading developer of ultra-regenerative, plant-based, biomaterials from seaweed.
Carbonwave is a leading developer of ultra-regenerative, plant-based, biomaterials from seaweed.
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Country: USA | Funding: $17.4M
Strella Biotechnology offers a biosensing platform that predicts the ripeness of fruit which reduces waste and improves product quality.
Strella Biotechnology offers a biosensing platform that predicts the ripeness of fruit which reduces waste and improves product quality.
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Country: USA | Funding: $16.2M
Spoiler Alert is a technology company that helps food businesses, farms and nonprofits better manage unsold food inventory. Spoiler Alert enables operators of food distribution and fulfillment centers to mitigate the impacts of unsold inventory and recover value from these under-utilized assets.
Spoiler Alert is a technology company that helps food businesses, farms and nonprofits better manage unsold food inventory. Spoiler Alert enables operators of food distribution and fulfillment centers to mitigate the impacts of unsold inventory and recover value from these under-utilized assets.
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Country: Germany
PreZero builds and operates state-of-the-art facilities that convert organic waste, plastics and paper into valuable raw materials and commodities.
PreZero builds and operates state-of-the-art facilities that convert organic waste, plastics and paper into valuable raw materials and commodities.
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Country: Ethiopia | Funding: $12.8M
Sustainable City Infrastructure, currently developing waste-to-energy projects in emerging market.
Sustainable City Infrastructure, currently developing waste-to-energy projects in emerging market.
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Country: USA | Funding: $12.3M
Goodr is a sustainable surplus food management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.
Goodr is a sustainable surplus food management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.
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Country: Australia
Closed Loop are leaders in sustainability and landfill diversion. We are committed to building a circular economy by turning waste back into products that re-enter the local supply chain…eliminating future waste.
Closed Loop are leaders in sustainability and landfill diversion. We are committed to building a circular economy by turning waste back into products that re-enter the local supply chain…eliminating future waste.
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Country: India | Funding: $9.4M
Phool aims to solve the flower-temple-waste problem. It collects tonnes of floral waste from temples, which is handcrafted into charcoal-free incense, organic vermicompost, and biodegradable packaging material through their ‘flowercycling’ technology.
Phool aims to solve the flower-temple-waste problem. It collects tonnes of floral waste from temples, which is handcrafted into charcoal-free incense, organic vermicompost, and biodegradable packaging material through their ‘flowercycling’ technology.
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Country: India | Funding: $9.4M
Phool.co is a biomaterial startup, which uses floral waste to make patented organic fertilizer and incense sticks.
Phool.co is a biomaterial startup, which uses floral waste to make patented organic fertilizer and incense sticks.
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Country: UK | Funding: $7.9M
Bio-Bean has found a way to turn that waste into a valuable resource. The company developed coffee-based biofuel for households and industrial use.
Bio-Bean has found a way to turn that waste into a valuable resource. The company developed coffee-based biofuel for households and industrial use.
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Country: USA | Funding: $7M
Inventure Chemicals develops an ethanol and biodiesel conversion process by using a variety of raw materials including algae and agribusiness waste.
Inventure Chemicals develops an ethanol and biodiesel conversion process by using a variety of raw materials including algae and agribusiness waste.
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Country: USA | Funding: $6M
Ecotone Renewables has developed the “Seahorse”, which reinvents the food and plant waste disposal system, taking food that would otherwise be wasted and turning it into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer, through the process of anaerobic digestion.
Ecotone Renewables has developed the “Seahorse”, which reinvents the food and plant waste disposal system, taking food that would otherwise be wasted and turning it into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer, through the process of anaerobic digestion.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Recompose is a provider of services used to convert human remains into the soil.
Recompose is a provider of services used to convert human remains into the soil.
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Country: Japan | Funding: $4.5M
EF Polymer is an agricultural firm that provides products & sustainable input solutions to save water and fertilizer usage. It manufactures super absorbent polymer made from biowaste from juice shops that reduces the irrigation water & fertilizer requirement and help to get more yield without affecting the soil and crop.
EF Polymer is an agricultural firm that provides products & sustainable input solutions to save water and fertilizer usage. It manufactures super absorbent polymer made from biowaste from juice shops that reduces the irrigation water & fertilizer requirement and help to get more yield without affecting the soil and crop.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩4B
Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
Kinava developing organic waste into renewable energy based on our own advanced technology through many experiments and research.
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Country: Ukraine | Funding: €2.6M
Releaf Paper is turning bio wastes into sustainable paper in the production of which not any single tree had been cut.
Releaf Paper is turning bio wastes into sustainable paper in the production of which not any single tree had been cut.
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Country: UK | Funding: £2.1M
SEaB Energy is an international specialist, UK based company, working in the renewable energy and energy from waste sectors. SEaB Energy has developed a compact easy to install turnkey Anaerobic Digestion (AD) systems in shipping container.
SEaB Energy is an international specialist, UK based company, working in the renewable energy and energy from waste sectors. SEaB Energy has developed a compact easy to install turnkey Anaerobic Digestion (AD) systems in shipping container.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.6M
Bion’s patented technology provides comprehensive livestock waste treatment and resource recovery. It integrates several systems and processes into one unified waste collection, treatment and recycling system.
Bion’s patented technology provides comprehensive livestock waste treatment and resource recovery. It integrates several systems and processes into one unified waste collection, treatment and recycling system.
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Country: Spain | Funding: €555K
Recycap Technologies develops and commercializes innovative and automated end-to-end coffee capsule recycling solutions and devices.
Recycap Technologies develops and commercializes innovative and automated end-to-end coffee capsule recycling solutions and devices.
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Country: UK | Funding: $503K
MarinaTex uses fish waste from the fishing industry to make an organic alternative to single-use plastic bags.
MarinaTex uses fish waste from the fishing industry to make an organic alternative to single-use plastic bags.
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Country: UK | Funding: $419.8K
AEROPOWDER is creating novel materials from surplus feathers. It developed world's first thermal packaging material made from surplus feathers.
AEROPOWDER is creating novel materials from surplus feathers. It developed world's first thermal packaging material made from surplus feathers.
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Country: Kenya | Funding: $309.4K
Biobuu Limited is an East African insect company that uses maggots for recycling organic waste - turning it into animal feed.
Biobuu Limited is an East African insect company that uses maggots for recycling organic waste - turning it into animal feed.
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Country: Malaysia | Funding: $0.2M
Biotechnology company that focuses on biowaste treatment and organic by-product upcycling.
Biotechnology company that focuses on biowaste treatment and organic by-product upcycling.
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Country: Japan | Funding: ¥20M
Phytochem Products manufactures and sells plant-derived functional food ingredients, cosmetic raw materials, and pharmaceutical ingredients.
Phytochem Products manufactures and sells plant-derived functional food ingredients, cosmetic raw materials, and pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Country: USA | Funding: $20K
Perfect Circle Recycling (WOSB) provides a revolutionary alternative to traditional waste management and helps businesses divert waste from landfills, focus on sustainability, and create the perfect circle from waste - allowing it to be converted into useable forms, such as renewable energy, compost, and fertilizer.
Perfect Circle Recycling (WOSB) provides a revolutionary alternative to traditional waste management and helps businesses divert waste from landfills, focus on sustainability, and create the perfect circle from waste - allowing it to be converted into useable forms, such as renewable energy, compost, and fertilizer.
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Country: USA | Funding: $20K
Gen3Bio has proprietary technology that redirects waste algae from an environmental hazard into profitable environmentally friendly products fully integrated into the circular economy. This is accomplished by using a proprietary efficient low-cost enzymolysis process to extract fats, sugars and proteins to produce specialty chemicals.
Gen3Bio has proprietary technology that redirects waste algae from an environmental hazard into profitable environmentally friendly products fully integrated into the circular economy. This is accomplished by using a proprietary efficient low-cost enzymolysis process to extract fats, sugars and proteins to produce specialty chemicals.
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Country: USA | Funding: $10K
Facet Power’s revolutionary technology is optimized to produce clean, green, high purity streams of hydrogen from biomass and organic waste.
Facet Power’s revolutionary technology is optimized to produce clean, green, high purity streams of hydrogen from biomass and organic waste.
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Country: Turkey
Ottan Studio has made a name for itself converting food waste into bio-composite material from which it makes furniture, decorative items and wall paneling.
Ottan Studio has made a name for itself converting food waste into bio-composite material from which it makes furniture, decorative items and wall paneling.
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Country: USA
Vaste is the comprehensive biomass feedstock trading platform, connecting suppliers and industrial buyers for a sustainable future.
Vaste is the comprehensive biomass feedstock trading platform, connecting suppliers and industrial buyers for a sustainable future.
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Country: India
Earth Recycler is a pioneer in providing integrated environmental friendly services, solutions, strongly committed to protecting the environment by improving the communities in which we work and live. Earth Recycler is equipped with a team of professionals who have proven expertise in developing sustainable and cost effective solutions for environmentally concerned clients. Our recycling initiatives are custom designed for various sectors from corporate organizations, educational institutions and residential apartments to the community at large.
Earth Recycler is a pioneer in providing integrated environmental friendly services, solutions, strongly committed to protecting the environment by improving the communities in which we work and live. Earth Recycler is equipped with a team of professionals who have proven expertise in developing sustainable and cost effective solutions for environmentally concerned clients. Our recycling initiatives are custom designed for various sectors from corporate organizations, educational institutions and residential apartments to the community at large.
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Country: USA
SustainRNG converts manure from the dairy industry into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).
SustainRNG converts manure from the dairy industry into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).
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Country: Turkey
Rebioca is a biotechnology company that creates biological products and develops projects to reduce the use of chemicals in agricullture.
Rebioca is a biotechnology company that creates biological products and develops projects to reduce the use of chemicals in agricullture.
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Country: South Australia
The BiobiN provides a cost-effective and sustainable solution for organic waste generated from a variety of facilities around the world.
The BiobiN provides a cost-effective and sustainable solution for organic waste generated from a variety of facilities around the world.
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Country: France
Arkeale is the specialist in the design and manufacture of hyperlocal waste recovery solutions.
Arkeale is the specialist in the design and manufacture of hyperlocal waste recovery solutions.
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Country: Poland
Humati.co technology provides opportunity to create high quality organic fertilizer from any available organic raw materials including organic agricultural waste, algae, sapropel, peat, brown coal, etc.
Humati.co technology provides opportunity to create high quality organic fertilizer from any available organic raw materials including organic agricultural waste, algae, sapropel, peat, brown coal, etc.
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Country: USA
Utopia Plastix is a plant based alternative polymer using what is traditionally known as agricultural cover crops. Pelletized resins are a drop in replacement used in vast applications including blown film, blow molding, thermoforming, extrusion, injection molding, and 3D without equipment modifications. 100% recyclable. Degradable. Compostable. Utopias IP also includes the ability to add their material to petroleum-based plastics to make them eco-friendly.
Utopia Plastix is a plant based alternative polymer using what is traditionally known as agricultural cover crops. Pelletized resins are a drop in replacement used in vast applications including blown film, blow molding, thermoforming, extrusion, injection molding, and 3D without equipment modifications. 100% recyclable. Degradable. Compostable. Utopias IP also includes the ability to add their material to petroleum-based plastics to make them eco-friendly.
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Country: Portugal
Pipe Masters manufactures and installs metal structures, piping, and industrial equipment.
Pipe Masters manufactures and installs metal structures, piping, and industrial equipment.
