Top 19 Smart Home Recycling startups

Updated: Dec 12, 2025
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These startups develop new smart home recycling technologies such as app-connected sorting bins, AI-driven waste scanners, composting devices with odor control, automated recycling compactors, smart kitchen waste dehydrators, recyclables tracking apps, etc.
1
Mill
Country: USA | Funding: $100M
Mill produces a smart kitchen bin for recycling food waste into nutrient-rich flour that can feed your garden, your backyard chickens or you can contact one of Mill's local partners for delivery to independent farms. Recycling is implemented through grinding and heating to 100°C. The flour can be unloaded once every one or two weeks. An odor filtration system made from recycled coconut shells prevents any odors and it operates quietly at a noise level of 41 decibels. Smart sensors and adaptive algorithms tell the bin when and how long to run - even if you add food in mid-cycle. Using the mobile app, you can set a lid lock to prevent access by pets and children, track cycles and view analytics on the volume of food waste recycled and carbon emissions avoided. The bin is available in premium design to complement any kitchen or office.
2
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.
3
Closed Loop
Country: Australia
Closed Loop are leaders in sustainability and landfill diversion. We are committed to building a circular economy by turning waste back into products that re-enter the local supply chain…eliminating future waste.
4
Nebia
Country: USA | Funding: $7.8M
Nebia is making products the world needs, starting with the shower. Premium experience, innovative design and 70% water savings. Nebia’s proprietary H₂Micro™ technology atomizes water into millions of micro droplets, making less water feel like so much more.
5
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.
6
MIWA
Country: Czech Republic | Funding: €5.4M
MIWA develops technology that allows food distributors and consumers to buy and sell without using packaging.
7
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.
8
Sepura Home
Country: Canada | Funding: $3.7M
Sepura is the world's first eco-friendly garbage disposal unit, making discarding food waste at home easy.
9
SEaB Energy
Country: UK | Funding: £2.1M
SEaB Energy is an international specialist, UK based company, working in the renewable energy and energy from waste sectors. SEaB Energy has developed a compact easy to install turnkey Anaerobic Digestion (AD) systems in shipping container.
10
Bin-e
Country: Poland | Funding: $2.3M
BIN-e is a smart building solution company that provides smart waste bin for office and public spaces. It uses a set of sensors to identify the type of waste that is being disposed of, segregates the waste, compresses it, and places it in the relevant chamber. The integrated computer gathers data about every item that is disposed of.
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Lasso
Country: USA
The home recycling solution that gives back to you and the planet
12
2B0
Country: USA | Funding: $500K
2B0.io (To Be Zero) is developing a simple AI-powered recycling robot for home, office and retail locations.
13
Uzer
Country: France | Funding: $386.2K
Uzer is a technology company that manufactures and distributes home barcode scanners for recycling materials. The technology allows its users to scan the barcodes of waste items before disposal, which assists them in finding sorting instructions, creating shopping lists based on consumption, providing reminders of required products, and sending lists of products required to online retailers for delivery. Furthermore, it helps its users analyze consumption and discover new products.
14
Repod
Country: Italy | Funding: €300k
Repod is a new smart household appliance that makes recycling at home easy.
15
Lasso Loop Recycling
Country: USA | Funding: $150K
Lasso Loop Recycling develops the home recycling solution that collects, cleans and sorts garbage for recycling.
16
Dukin
Country: Slovenia | Funding: €50K
Dukin develops and produces equipment for solving the problems of waste in households, tourist facilities, hospitals, etc.
17
ClearDrop
Country: USA
ClearDrop has a product called a Minimizer, which is a soft plastics compactor (SPC). You place all soft plastic bags, wrappers, and packaging into the SPC, and a patent-pending automatic process will compact and seal the pile, utilizing the melting properties of the plastic itself.
18
Bruno Smartcan
Country: USA
Bruno Smartcan reminds you to take the trash out on trash day, and alert you when you are low on bruno bags.
19
VCycene
Country: Canada
LILA Composter is a manufacturing company that designs, develops, and sales composters for household waste.
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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