Top 6 Medical Waste Recycling startups in USA
Jun 18, 2026
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Funding: $501.7M
Rubicon provides waste management platform and services for businesses and smart cities. Using computer vision, the platform conducts an initial analysis of a client's waste stream to identify waste types and volumes, then creates a customized waste collection schedule and optimal routes for fleets. Rubicon uses data analysis and AI to improve waste management strategies, providing transparency into waste generation patterns and predicting future trends. The company's services cover the recycling of cardboard, plastic, paper, metal, glass, electronics, construction and demolition waste, organic waste (including food waste and composting services), and separate waste collection. Acquired by Dev.al
Rubicon provides waste management platform and services for businesses and smart cities. Using computer vision, the platform conducts an initial analysis of a client's waste stream to identify waste types and volumes, then creates a customized waste collection schedule and optimal routes for fleets. Rubicon uses data analysis and AI to improve waste management strategies, providing transparency into waste generation patterns and predicting future trends. The company's services cover the recycling of cardboard, plastic, paper, metal, glass, electronics, construction and demolition waste, organic waste (including food waste and composting services), and separate waste collection. Acquired by Dev.al
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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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