Top 6 Medical Waste Recycling startups in USA
Nov 18, 2025
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Funding: $7.1M
Stericycle develops industry-leading biohazardous, medical, sharps, and pharmaceutical waste disposal and compliance training solutions
Stericycle develops industry-leading biohazardous, medical, sharps, and pharmaceutical waste disposal and compliance training solutions
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Funding: $6.2M
Polycarbin intends to reduce the carbon footprint of innovation and the environmental impact of healthcare.
Polycarbin intends to reduce the carbon footprint of innovation and the environmental impact of healthcare.
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Funding: $1.3M
Sterilis provides a safer, faster, easier and more environmentally sustainable method for removing highly regulated medical waste (RMW), including used needles
Sterilis provides a safer, faster, easier and more environmentally sustainable method for removing highly regulated medical waste (RMW), including used needles
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GreenLabs Recycling is focused on diverting lab plastics from the landfill. It's also recycling container lab plastics used in facilities that manage medical waste
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