Top 22 Agricultural Crop Recycling startups

Updated: Jan 11, 2026
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These startups develop new crop recycling technologies such as biofuel production, precision nutrient recovery, anaerobic digestion for methane production, cover crop integration, composting for soil health enhancement, crop residue pyrolysis, microbial fermentation for bioproducts.
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Anaergia
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.
2
Traceless
Country: Germany | Funding: €39M
Traceless has developed a technique for transforming agricultural industry residues into a biodegradable substitute for cling-film and other packaging.
3
3PLW
Country: Israel | Funding: $33.9M
3PLW develops a process that can convert food waste into feedstock for biodegradable plastics. The process involves breaking down raw organic waste and then fermenting it to create a “soup” after which the solids and liquids are separated.
4
Woodland Biofuels
Country: Canada | Funding: $33.4M
Woodland Biofuels develops technology ti produce cellulosic ethanol from waste biomass, such as wood chips and agricultural waste.
5
Bon Vivant
Country: France | Funding: €20.5M
A French biotechnology company that uses precision fermentation to produce real dairy products, accessible to everyone.
6
Bio-lutions
Country: Germany | Funding: €10M
BIO-LUTIONS offers sustainable packaging and disposable tableware solutions made of agricultural residues.
7
Phool
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.
8
Circular Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $9.1M
Circular Systems transform waste into a valuable fiber, yarn, and textile fabrics for the fashion industry.
9
Glanris
Country: USA | Funding: $7.4M
Glanris makes a sustainable, low cost hybrid filtration media that removes organics as well as metals from water. Its Biocarbon is made from the largest agricultural waste, rice husks, allowing for global expansion of our carbon-negative technology to reduce greenhouse gasses and sequester carbon at gigaton scale.
10
Inventure Chemical
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.
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Ecotone Renewables
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.
12
Upcycled Plant Power
Country: UK | Funding: £3.6M
UPP (Upcycled Plant Power) replaces hand-labour, delivering fresh broccoli and the 80% for uppcycling
13
SorbiForce
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $2.5M
SorbiForce is a World`s first non-metal battery, made from renewable raw materials, cost-effective, safe and with zero environmental impact.
14
Vegea
Country: Italy | Funding: €300K
Vegea turns waste from wine production into a bio-textile for clothing, creating an environmentally friendly alternative to synthetic textile production which uses 100 million tons of oil a year.
15
Xilinat
Country: Mexico | Funding: $109.5K
Xilinat is transforming agricultural waste into a sugar substitute. Their product looks and tastes like sugar, is safe for diabetics, low in calories and protects teeth against cavities.
16
Biomyc
Country: Bulgaria | Funding: €20K
Biomyc revolutionizes the packaging industry by developing innovative packaging solutions from sustainable feedstocks. Their fully biodegradable materials provide thermal insulation and impact protection to your products.
17
Facet Power
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.
18
Chapul
Country: USA
Chapul develops modular insect farms that process diverted agricultural waste streams into dried insect larvae for food and fertilizer and also reduces agriculture water usage.
19
Carbon Masters
Country: India
Carbon Masters has developed a bottled bio CNG (compressed natural gas) brand Carbonlites. It is made by converting food and agri wastes into clean renewable energy that can displace LPG for commercial cooking in restaurants and hotels
20
Seraplant
Country: Germany
Seraplant offers recycled phosphorus-based fertilizers to promote sustainable agriculture. The startup’s process involves mixing sewage sludge ash to make it reactive to chemical bonding, before spraying, granulating, and fractionating the waste. Moreover, the process does not produce dangerous intermediate products and toxic exhaust gases. The fertilizer also contains significantly lower proportions of uranium and cadmium, making it ideal for agriculture.
21
Utopia Plastix
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.
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HeartFoods
Country: USA
HeartFoods is a AgriFoodTech and Cleantech company recycling food and crop waste for a more secure food future.
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Marjana Bačić
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