Top 44 Wastewater recycling startups

Updated: Jan 11, 2026
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These startups develop new wastewater recycling technologies such as membrane bioreactors, anaerobic digestion, reverse osmosis filtration, electrocoagulation, advanced oxidation processes, UV disinfection and biofiltration.
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Gradiant
Country: USA | Funding: $442.4M
Gradiant is a solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for advanced water and wastewater treatment.
2
Ostara
Country: Canada | Funding: $146.7M
Ostara’s proprietary Pearl technology recovers nutrients from industrial, agricultural, and municipal water treatment streams, transforming them into granular fertilizers that improve crop yields and reduce runoff. We are transforming the commodity market value chain and closing the loop on phosphorus for future generations.
3
Anaergia
Country: Canada | Funding: $126.8M
Anaergia offers comprehensive, integrated solutions for municipal solid waste management, resource recovery in the wastewater sector and waste management for large agricultural and food processing enterprises. The company develops world-leading solutions for anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, organic matter recovery and biogas upgrading. Anaergia's anaerobic digestion technology has been implemented at over 1,000 facilities in more than 17 countries. The company provides customers with equipment or designs, finances, builds and operates complete biorefineries. The company's goal is to become the world's leading producer of renewable fuels while simultaneously reducing global carbon emissions.
4
ZwitterCo
Country: USA | Funding: $98.8M
ZwitterCo provides revolutionary membrane solutions for the treatment of highly-impaired wastewater.
5
Orbital Systems
Country: Sweden | Funding: $69.9M
ORBITAL SYSTEMS is a Swedish clean-tech company that develops a water recycling technology to be used in domestic appliances.
6
Neustark
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $69M
Neustark is a concrete producer in bern using wastewater treatment plant by turning CO2 into minerals.
7
Axine Water Technologies
Country: Canada | Funding: $37.1M
Axine Water Technologies is a developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions.
8
Homebiogas
Country: Israel | Funding: $32.3M
Homebiogas develops bio-toilet which can convert human waste into cooking fuel sans the need to access sewers or water grids.
9
Membrion
Country: USA | Funding: $27.9M
Membrion is a manufacturer of ultra-low cost, high performance ion exchange membranes.
10
Toopi Organics
Country: France | Funding: €23.2M
TOOPI Organics collects and transforms human urine into fertiliser products
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Epic CleanTec
Country: USA | Funding: $25.4M
Epic CleanTec is decentralizing wastewater treatment and reuse into individual buildings or groups of buildings.
12
Aclarity
Country: USA | Funding: $21.3M
Aclarity is a VC-backed cleantech startup developing and selling water treatment systems to clean the world's water and wastewater.
13
Impact Recycling
Country: UK | Funding: £15M
Impact Recycling has developed a breakthrough plastic recycling technology which separates the components of mixed plastic waste.
14
Hydroleap
Country: Singapore | Funding: $11M
Hydropleap provides advanced environmental-friendly technological water treatment solutions.
15
Aquagga
Country: USA | Funding: $10.5M
Aquagga cleans wastewater with less energy and develops innovative tech to create a positive societal impact in the developed and developing world.
16
IX Power Clean Water
Country: USA | Funding: $275K
IX Power Clean Water is an innovative provider of cleantech solutions designed to treat and clean industrial wastewater so that freshwater resources can be preserved for families, crops, and communities.
17
Glanris
Country: USA | Funding: $7.4M
Glanris makes a sustainable, low cost hybrid filtration media that removes organics as well as metals from water. Its Biocarbon is made from the largest agricultural waste, rice husks, allowing for global expansion of our carbon-negative technology to reduce greenhouse gasses and sequester carbon at gigaton scale.
18
Nexus eWater
Country: Australia | Funding: $6.6M
Nexus eWater is a home water recycling platform that develops solutions converting grey water for home water and energy use.
19
TaKaDu
Country: Israel | Funding: $6M
TaKaDu is a water network management company offering water utilities to improve network efficiency and planning decisions.
20
Membion
Country: Germany | Funding: €5M
Membion provides wastewater treatment with membrane bioreactor technology.
21
Hydraloop
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €4M
Hydraloop develops home water-recycling system. It allows to use the recycled water from the shower, bath and washing machine for toilet flushing, the garden and washing machine.
22
INDRA Water
Country: India | Funding: $4M
Mumbai startup INDRA Water treats wastewater and industrial effluents from textiles, chemicals, and pharma industries.
23
Swirltex
Country: Canada | Funding: $3M
Swirltex builds custom water treatment systems for a wide range of applications. Swirltex unique patent membrane works by separating and filtering liquids according to their buoyancy, which allows for greater production with less pollution of the water. The ability to manipulate the buoyancy of different contaminants within the liquid stream allows the Swirltex system to treat water that would be considered unusable.
24
Circular Materials
Country: Italy | Funding: €2.5M
Circular Materials delivers sustainable & innovative solutions to recover critical raw materials from black mass and industrial wastewater.
25
NPHarvest
Country: Finland | Funding: €2.2M
NPHarvest is a company with expertise in organic waste management, wastewater treatment, and nutrient recovery.
26
Aqua Membranes
Country: USA | Funding: $2.1M
Aqua Membranes is an environmental company that provides a differentiated solution in membrane element construction.
27
Variolytics
Country: Germany | Funding: €1.7M
Variolytics develops measurement technology and AI software. Its EmiCo system drives the decarbonization of the wastewater industry, empowering treatment plants to achieve carbon neutrality.
28
Salinity Solutions
Country: UK | Funding: £1.4M
Salinity Solutions develops a technology to clean up water treatment industries.
29
LeapFrog Design
Country: USA | Funding: $1.7M
Developer of a sustainable, scalable system for treating and recycling household greywater using plants and natural materials.
30
VunaNexus
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $1.5M
VunaNexus offers proprietary technology for recycling human and cattle urine to create a safe, effective, and certified fertilizer.
31
Dynamic Flow Technologies
Country: UK | Funding: £517.4K
Dynamic Flow Technologies design and manufacture the WasteWater Meter which incorporates simple design with advanced technology to create a truly unique product.
32
Livestock Water Recycling
Country: Canada | Funding: $350K
Livestock Water Recycling is an environmental company focused on livestock manure management.
33
SLII
Country: India | Funding: ₹10M
SLII develops Water Purifier that is very affordable, wastes no water, requires no external energy or pumps and works for all water sources emitting zero carbon emissions.
34
Gen3Bio
Country: USA | Funding: $20K
Gen3Bio has proprietary technology that redirects waste algae from an environmental hazard into profitable environmentally friendly products fully integrated into the circular economy. This is accomplished by using a proprietary efficient low-cost enzymolysis process to extract fats, sugars and proteins to produce specialty chemicals.
35
Elentec
Country: UK
Elentec has developed a robust range of water treatment systems and equipment based on its electrocoagulation technology, ElentecEC (patent pending), which will offer water treatment using sustainable energy with reduced waste.
36
WOTA
Country: Japan
WOTA is developing small-scale decentralized water recycling systems and autonomous control system for water treatment.
37
Pancopia
Country: USA
Pancopia is developing a system to reduce ammonia levels in swine wastewater used as a biogas feedstock to levels that do not adversely affect swine productivity, and eliminates off-site nuisance ammonia odors.
38
FutureAC Water System
Country: USA
Florida startup recycles AC water for cannabis growers and homeowners
39
SmarterHomes
Country: India
SmarterHomes creats IoT water meter, WaterOn, that measures the number of units used by each apartment. It provides real-time information about the apartments' water meters, individual consumption, trends, and billing status.
40
Seraplant
Country: Germany
Seraplant offers recycled phosphorus-based fertilizers to promote sustainable agriculture. The startup’s process involves mixing sewage sludge ash to make it reactive to chemical bonding, before spraying, granulating, and fractionating the waste. Moreover, the process does not produce dangerous intermediate products and toxic exhaust gases. The fertilizer also contains significantly lower proportions of uranium and cadmium, making it ideal for agriculture.
41
FGWRS
Country: France
FGRWS intends to recycle 80% of the domestic grey waters.
42
JalSevak Solutions
Country: India
Economical wastewater recycling solution for residential facilities. Safely reuse up to 60% fresh water using our patented greywater recycling solution.
43
CROTEH
Country: Croatia
Croteh is engaged in designing, engineering and developing technologies for processing, recovering biodegradable materials and waste.
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UNIWASTEC
Country: Switzerland
UNIWASTEC is a technology company that operates in the field of waste-to-energy production, namely Grade 5 green hydrogen directly from wastewater, synthetic gas from municipal or industrial solid waste, and synthetic catalytic fuels from biomass.
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Marjana Bačić
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