Top 15 Plastic Recycling startups in UK
Jun 14, 2026
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Funding: $47.3M
Epoch aims to commercially scale its nylon recycling technology - enzymes that transform plastics into circular chemicals. The company operates demonstration-scale facility located near Imperial College London and plans to bring a commercial-scale facility online in 2028, which will have the capacity to produce 20,000 metric tons of monomer - small, basic molecules that act as the building blocks for plastic - annually
Epoch aims to commercially scale its nylon recycling technology - enzymes that transform plastics into circular chemicals. The company operates demonstration-scale facility located near Imperial College London and plans to bring a commercial-scale facility online in 2028, which will have the capacity to produce 20,000 metric tons of monomer - small, basic molecules that act as the building blocks for plastic - annually
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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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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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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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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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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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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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ReVentas is dedicated to transforming how the world recycles plastics, aiming for a sustainable and circular economy.
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Funding: £1.4M
LabCycle provides plastic recycling services in the research and healthcare sectors.
LabCycle provides plastic recycling services in the research and healthcare sectors.
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Pulsar Fusion has designed the first launch-capable, high-power chemical rocket engine fueled by plastic waste. Pulsar is in advanced stages of design of Fusion power station reactor
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Gomi Design’s main product is a Bluetooth speaker that is made out of what was once 100 plastic bags. Gomi uses a four step process of collecting, melting, marbling, and compressing to create an infinitely recyclable Bluetooth speaker.
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DeepTech Recycling offers technology-based solutions to the environmental challenges of plastic waste by converting complex, hard-to-recycle plastics into high-value, on demand products.
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RePolyWise carries a mission to combat the global plastic waste crisis, transforming them into virgin-grade plastics.
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Enviroo is a plastic recycling company that uses food-grade polymers to recreate food packaging and plastic bottles.
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