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Country: India | Funding: ₹260M
PolyCycl converts non-recyclable, low-grade mixed waste plastics to petroleum fuels.
PolyCycl converts non-recyclable, low-grade mixed waste plastics to petroleum fuels.
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Country: USA | Funding: $844.2M
PureCycle transforms polypropylene plastic waste into like-new plastic. The revolutionary technology that PureCycle uses is a form of dissolution. It consists of six main process stages that help close the loop on plastic waste while making recycled plastics more accessible at scale to companies seeking to use a sustainable, recycled resin. PureCycle’s ultra-pure recycled resin with its clarity and low odor can be offered as a substitute for virgin polypropylene. PureCycle’s process uses less energy to recycle existing waste than the energy needed to create first-use plastic, making PureCycled plastic an environmentally mindful and sustainable product.
PureCycle transforms polypropylene plastic waste into like-new plastic. The revolutionary technology that PureCycle uses is a form of dissolution. It consists of six main process stages that help close the loop on plastic waste while making recycled plastics more accessible at scale to companies seeking to use a sustainable, recycled resin. PureCycle’s ultra-pure recycled resin with its clarity and low odor can be offered as a substitute for virgin polypropylene. PureCycle’s process uses less energy to recycle existing waste than the energy needed to create first-use plastic, making PureCycled plastic an environmentally mindful and sustainable product.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $245.6M
The UBQ proprietary process transforms Residual Municipal Solid Waste (organic and hard-to-recycle materials), destined to landfills, into innovative bio-based UBQ Material, that can be used to make everyday long-lasting products. UBQ's material can be used in current manufacturing processes and is already adopted across sectors (building and construction, consumer durables, logistics and supply chain, retailer environments, and automotive) to substitute oil-based resins. It is compatible with most polymers: polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polyolefins and elastomers, making it a great material for injection molding. There is also an alternative for low-flow extrusion.
The UBQ proprietary process transforms Residual Municipal Solid Waste (organic and hard-to-recycle materials), destined to landfills, into innovative bio-based UBQ Material, that can be used to make everyday long-lasting products. UBQ's material can be used in current manufacturing processes and is already adopted across sectors (building and construction, consumer durables, logistics and supply chain, retailer environments, and automotive) to substitute oil-based resins. It is compatible with most polymers: polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polyolefins and elastomers, making it a great material for injection molding. There is also an alternative for low-flow extrusion.
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Country: USA | Funding: $196M
Agilyx created a solutions platform that can take a wide variety of waste plastics and polymers, and chemically recycle those plastics into high value synthetic oils, chemicals and in some cases back to basic monomers that can be used to re-manufacture products.
Agilyx created a solutions platform that can take a wide variety of waste plastics and polymers, and chemically recycle those plastics into high value synthetic oils, chemicals and in some cases back to basic monomers that can be used to re-manufacture products.
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Country: Spain | Funding: £124M
Plastic Energy offers a sustainable solution to help prevent plastic pollution by transforming previously unrecyclable plastic waste into and optimal feedstock for making clean recycled plastics or alternative law-carbon fuels.
Plastic Energy offers a sustainable solution to help prevent plastic pollution by transforming previously unrecyclable plastic waste into and optimal feedstock for making clean recycled plastics or alternative law-carbon fuels.
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Country: USA | Funding: $150M
Nexus Circular is a leader in pyrolysis-based advanced plastics recycling.
Nexus Circular is a leader in pyrolysis-based advanced plastics recycling.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $139.9M
Loop Industries is a leading sustainable plastics technology innovator. Loop owns patented and proprietary technology that depolymerizes no and low value waste PET plastic and polyester fiber, including plastic bottles and packaging, carpet
Loop Industries is a leading sustainable plastics technology innovator. Loop owns patented and proprietary technology that depolymerizes no and low value waste PET plastic and polyester fiber, including plastic bottles and packaging, carpet
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Country: Australia | Funding: $107M
Samsara Eco uses enzyme-based technology to break down plastic into its core molecules
Samsara Eco uses enzyme-based technology to break down plastic into its core molecules
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: €100M
Repeats Group is a plastics recycling platform focused on producing high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene.
Repeats Group is a plastics recycling platform focused on producing high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene.
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Country: France | Funding: €78M
Carbios is a chemistry company that focuses on discovering and developing enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and textile polymers.
Carbios is a chemistry company that focuses on discovering and developing enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and textile polymers.
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Country: USA | Funding: $45.1M
Advanced upcycling company creating quality chemicals and materials made from plastic waste
Advanced upcycling company creating quality chemicals and materials made from plastic waste
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: €42.5M
Ioniqa Technologies has a patented technology that uses magnetic colloidal systems with nanoparticles to break down PET into a re-usable monomer.
Ioniqa Technologies has a patented technology that uses magnetic colloidal systems with nanoparticles to break down PET into a re-usable monomer.
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: $41.1M
DePoly has developed a chemical-based method for recycling PET containers.
DePoly has developed a chemical-based method for recycling PET containers.
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Country: UK | Funding: $34.3M
Epoch develops natural solutions to unnatural problems. First up: enzymes that transform plastics into circular chemicals.
Epoch develops natural solutions to unnatural problems. First up: enzymes that transform plastics into circular chemicals.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $32.1M
Polystyvert is an innovative SME environmental company with a mission to recycle polystyrene
Polystyvert is an innovative SME environmental company with a mission to recycle polystyrene
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Country: USA | Funding: $30.8M
Resynergi develops plastic recycling technology to rapidly convert plastic waste into reusable and environmentally friendly material.
Resynergi develops plastic recycling technology to rapidly convert plastic waste into reusable and environmentally friendly material.
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: €28M
Pryme is an innovative cleantech company focused on converting plastic waste into valuable products through low-carbon chemical recycling.
Pryme is an innovative cleantech company focused on converting plastic waste into valuable products through low-carbon chemical recycling.
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Country: Australia | Funding: $26M
Licella developed unique hydrothermal upgrading platform, the Cat-HTR, that can rapidly and economically transform a wide range of biomass, waste plastic and industry residues into a synthetic oil or biocrude to produce more sustainable fuels and chemicals.
Licella developed unique hydrothermal upgrading platform, the Cat-HTR, that can rapidly and economically transform a wide range of biomass, waste plastic and industry residues into a synthetic oil or biocrude to produce more sustainable fuels and chemicals.
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Country: USA | Funding: $20M
Ushering in a new era of sustainable and circular plastics. It engineers supercharged organisms to break down plastic and textile waste
Ushering in a new era of sustainable and circular plastics. It engineers supercharged organisms to break down plastic and textile waste
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Country: India | Funding: $14.3M
Banyan Nation is unlocking the market for premium recycled plastics in India through technology innovations across the value chain.
Banyan Nation is unlocking the market for premium recycled plastics in India through technology innovations across the value chain.
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: €12.5M
Circularise uses blockchain to track plastics from the initial resin to the end product, including any additives along the way.
Circularise uses blockchain to track plastics from the initial resin to the end product, including any additives along the way.
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Country: UK | Funding: $11.9M
Recycling Technologies specializes in waste management and engineering processes and helps customers achieve financial gains from waste. Recycling Technologies also provides a solution to chemically recycle end-of-life plastic back to a crude oil equivalent called Plaxx, which is a synthetic oil that has multiple industrial applications.
Recycling Technologies specializes in waste management and engineering processes and helps customers achieve financial gains from waste. Recycling Technologies also provides a solution to chemically recycle end-of-life plastic back to a crude oil equivalent called Plaxx, which is a synthetic oil that has multiple industrial applications.
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Country: UK | Funding: £8M
Greenback Recycling Technologies is building a decentralised network of recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste, which it buys from local collectors.
Greenback Recycling Technologies is building a decentralised network of recycling plants near the sources of plastic waste, which it buys from local collectors.
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: $10.1M
Gr3n developed an innovative process, based on a new application of microwave technology to a well known chemical reaction.
Gr3n developed an innovative process, based on a new application of microwave technology to a well known chemical reaction.
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Country: India | Funding: $10M
The Shakti Plastics Industries is a Mumbai based company that recycles all types of plastic waste, and one of the leading recyclers of polymer waste in India.
The Shakti Plastics Industries is a Mumbai based company that recycles all types of plastic waste, and one of the leading recyclers of polymer waste in India.
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Country: USA | Funding: $7.6M
MacroCycle believes that chemistry holds the key to enabling fully circular plastics, made without carbon emissions and wants to protect world through circular, sustainable, zero-carbon upcycling process.
MacroCycle believes that chemistry holds the key to enabling fully circular plastics, made without carbon emissions and wants to protect world through circular, sustainable, zero-carbon upcycling process.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $6.4M
Pyrowave is a pioneer of the Plastic-to-Plastic microwave-based chemical recycling technology that allows post-consumer and post-industrial plastics to be regenerated and restored to their full value. Its patented high-power microwave catalytic depolymerization technology platform is the most advanced worldwide and is now at the forefront of the new generation of plastics. By bringing plastics back to their molecular state identical to virgin materials, Pyrowave technology allows infinite recycling of plastics.
Pyrowave is a pioneer of the Plastic-to-Plastic microwave-based chemical recycling technology that allows post-consumer and post-industrial plastics to be regenerated and restored to their full value. Its patented high-power microwave catalytic depolymerization technology platform is the most advanced worldwide and is now at the forefront of the new generation of plastics. By bringing plastics back to their molecular state identical to virgin materials, Pyrowave technology allows infinite recycling of plastics.
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Country: UK | Funding: €6M
Itero creates profitable waste management solutions. The startup's chemical recycling technology is designed to convert previously non-recycled plastic waste into petrochemical resources.
Itero creates profitable waste management solutions. The startup's chemical recycling technology is designed to convert previously non-recycled plastic waste into petrochemical resources.
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Country: UK | Funding: £4.5M
At MacRebur our mission is to help solve two world problems; to help solve the waste plastic epidemic, and to enhance the asphalt used to make our road surfaces around the world.
At MacRebur our mission is to help solve two world problems; to help solve the waste plastic epidemic, and to enhance the asphalt used to make our road surfaces around the world.
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Country: UK | Funding: £4.4M
ReNew ELP develops cutting-edge technology that enables the upcycling of plastics that are traditionally considered non-recyclable.
ReNew ELP develops cutting-edge technology that enables the upcycling of plastics that are traditionally considered non-recyclable.
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Country: Kenya | Funding: $5.3M
Kubik is an environmental technology company that uses plastic waste to make low-carbon, durable, and affordable buildings.
Kubik is an environmental technology company that uses plastic waste to make low-carbon, durable, and affordable buildings.
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Country: UK | Funding: £4M
Scindo develops novel ways to break down plastic polymers into useful molecular components
Scindo develops novel ways to break down plastic polymers into useful molecular components
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Country: Netherlands
PolyStyreneLoop developed a solution to close the loop for hard to recycle polystyrene foam that is left over as demolition waste.
PolyStyreneLoop developed a solution to close the loop for hard to recycle polystyrene foam that is left over as demolition waste.
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Country: Netherlands
An energy-efficient solution for endless product to product transformation. To recycle infinitely, again and again and again. Creating a fully circular polyester chain.
An energy-efficient solution for endless product to product transformation. To recycle infinitely, again and again and again. Creating a fully circular polyester chain.
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Country: USA
Birch Plastics is a plastic recycling facility in Texas diverting millions of pounds of plastic each year from going to the land fill.
Birch Plastics is a plastic recycling facility in Texas diverting millions of pounds of plastic each year from going to the land fill.
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Country: Nigeria | Funding: $4M
Kaltani is a clean-tech plastic recycling and waste management company.
Kaltani is a clean-tech plastic recycling and waste management company.
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Country: France | Funding: €3.2M
Recyc'Elit is a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) system designed to solve difficult polyester-based textile recycling issues.
Recyc'Elit is a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) system designed to solve difficult polyester-based textile recycling issues.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.1M
Aeternal Upcycling is a carbon economy revolution that combats the plastic waste crisis, reduces the need for fossil fuels.
Aeternal Upcycling is a carbon economy revolution that combats the plastic waste crisis, reduces the need for fossil fuels.
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Country: Netherlands
Fuenix Ecogy upcycles plastic waste into raw materials, that can be used to create brand new plastic, which is 100% circular.
Fuenix Ecogy upcycles plastic waste into raw materials, that can be used to create brand new plastic, which is 100% circular.
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Country: Egypt | Funding: $3M
Dawarha develops and manufactures reverse vending machines (RVM) that use artificial intelligence (AI) to reward consumers for depositing empty single-use plastic bottles or cans.
Dawarha develops and manufactures reverse vending machines (RVM) that use artificial intelligence (AI) to reward consumers for depositing empty single-use plastic bottles or cans.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €2.7M
Radical Dot technology extracts sustainable carbon from complex, yet inescapable, plastic waste streams.
Radical Dot technology extracts sustainable carbon from complex, yet inescapable, plastic waste streams.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.2M
Birch Biosciences is developing a new way to recycle plastics using naturally occurring enzymes that will yield better-quality plastic than current recycling methods.
Birch Biosciences is developing a new way to recycle plastics using naturally occurring enzymes that will yield better-quality plastic than current recycling methods.
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Country: USA
Alterra Energy is an innovative chemical recycling technology company. Alterra Energy engages in developing and commercializing continuous recycling technology, which transforms waste plastic into petrochemical products.
Alterra Energy is an innovative chemical recycling technology company. Alterra Energy engages in developing and commercializing continuous recycling technology, which transforms waste plastic into petrochemical products.
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Country: France | Funding: €1M
Lemontri offers a turnkey multi-flow recycling service (plastic, metal, paper, glass, etc.).
Lemontri offers a turnkey multi-flow recycling service (plastic, metal, paper, glass, etc.).
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Country: UK
ReVentas is dedicated to transforming how the world recycles plastics, aiming for a sustainable and circular economy.
ReVentas is dedicated to transforming how the world recycles plastics, aiming for a sustainable and circular economy.
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Country: Kenya | Funding: $2M
Mr. Green Africa is a tech-enabled plastic recycling company that tackles waste management problems.
Mr. Green Africa is a tech-enabled plastic recycling company that tackles waste management problems.
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Country: Serbia
Sekopak is recycling PET plastic, paper and cardboard, glass, metal and wood. We facilitate the management of packaging waste for all our clients.
Sekopak is recycling PET plastic, paper and cardboard, glass, metal and wood. We facilitate the management of packaging waste for all our clients.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.5M
ByFusion’s Blocker system turns 100% of plastic waste into ByBlock – an advanced, cost-effective building material.
ByFusion’s Blocker system turns 100% of plastic waste into ByBlock – an advanced, cost-effective building material.
