Top 17 Electronics (e-Waste) Recycling startups in USA

Mar 18, 2026
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Redwood Materials
Funding: $4.9B
Redwood Materials is a leading battery and electronics recycling company. Founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, the company's primary business is electric vehicle battery recycling. But in addition to car batteries, it recycles phones, laptops, tablets, power tools and any other lithium-ion-containing devices - to recover critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and copper. The company also uses old batteries to create own energy storage systems that supply electricity to data centers and the national power grid. The company also offers the creation of corporate and municipal energy storages. Thanks to using the most affordable domestic batteries, combining used and new batteries and simplifying installation and system design, it offers the most cost-effective energy storage systems on the market.
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Rubicon Global
Funding: $501.7M
Rubicon provides affordable waste and recycling solutions for businesses seeking a smarter, sustainable alternative. Using technologies such as visual recognition and machine learning, the company conducts an initial screening of a client’s waste streams to identify types of waste and quantities, develops a waste separation system, and then tailors a waste collection schedule.
3
Urban Mining Company
Funding: $343.8M
Urban Mining Company has developed groundbreaking technology to cost effectively recycle rare earth magnets from discarded hard disk drives or motors, and reprocess them into high performance magnets that are critical components used for industrial, automotive, clean energy, and military defense.
4
TerraCycle
Funding: $6.8M
TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. TerraCycle recycles non-recyclable waste into various consumer products.
5
Molg
Funding: $44.2M
Molg enables circular manufacturing with robotics and design. Our robotic microfactories autonomously disassemble complex electronic products, and we work with manufacturers to design electronics for reuse — ensuring one product’s end is another’s new beginning.
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Ridwell
Ridwell recycles items such as batteries, light bulbs and textiles not typically accepted by existing recycling services.
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All Green Recycling
All Green Recycling is a full-service industrial, commercial and consumer e-waste recycling company.
8
TG Companies
Funding: $957.9K
TG Companies makes the solar industry sustainable by providing recycling service and equipment for end-of-life solar cells and modules. The chemical concoction developed by TG Companies is used to extract silver, tin, copper, and lead from the cells, leaving behind silicon.
9
CyberCrunch
Funding: $325K
Cybercrunch provides nationwide electronics recycling and hard drive shredding services in US.
10
Recycle Global Exchange
Funding: $250K
Recycle Global Exchange is a digital marketplace for business eWaste and IT asset disposal.
11
Call2Recycle
Call2Recycle is a product stewardship program that provides no-cost battery and cellphone recycling solutions.
12
RoboLoop
As one of the leading IT lifecycle management companies in the area, eLoop llc provides businesses, counties, municipalities, healthcare organizations and educational institutions a full range of IT asset disposition (ITAD) and remarketing solutions.
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Big Sky Recycling
Big Sky Recycling is a Certified B Corp dedicated to sustainable cell phone and e-waste recycling.
14
Determinant Materials
Determinant Materials is an electronic waste recycling and ethical materials production company.
15
Verdant Beneficiated Resources
Verdant develops resource recovery technologies - focusing on neglected waste streams - to enable environmental conservation, resource retention, and supply chain resiliency. It recovers cobalt, zinc, gold, lithium and silver from electronics waste.
16
Computer Recycling
Computer Recycling is a leading electronics recycling company committed to helping customers dispose of obsolete or unwanted electronic equipment.
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Isidore Electronics
Based in downtown Los Angeles, Isidore Electronics recycling offers certified e-waste recycling, data destruction, and IT asset recovery services.
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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