Top 19 Tyre Recycling startups

Updated: Dec 12, 2025
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These startups develop new tire recycling technologies such as pyrolysis for oil recovery, devulcanization for rubber reuse, cryogenic grinding, ultrasonic disintegration, chemical depolymerization, microwave-assisted recycling.
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Circtec
Country: UK | Funding: €172.5M
CIRCTEC is an innovator and operator of pyrolysis technology to recycle waste into renewable fuels and circular chemicals.Circtec uses pyrolysis technology to convert waste tires into renewable fuels and chemical products. The company's solution decomposes old tires through a thermal decomposition process in an oxygen-free environment and then converts the products into high-quality recycled chemicals and environmentally friendly marine fuel, naphtha for the responsible production of plastics, polymers, and chemicals, and carbon black for use in new tires, rubber and plastics production. The company has two factories in the UK and the Netherlands. Their production processes are focused on energy efficiency and emissions control.
2
Genan
Country: Denmark
Genan is the world’s largest recycler of end-of-life tyres, counting five recycling plants in total: one in Denmark, which is where the Genan headquarters are located, three in Germany and one in the USA.
3
LD Carbon
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩58.5B
LDCarbon Co. is a manufacture of green carbon black, pyrolysis oil, and waste tire powder.
4
Wastefront
Country: Norway | Funding: €38.5M
Wastefront AS will use existing, certified technology to convert waste tyres into valuable resources through an up-cycling process for the use of new tyres and other products.
5
Prism Worldwide
Country: USA | Funding: $40M
Prism Worldwide manufactures circular polymer from the tire and recycled plastic material to reduce carbon footprints.
6
Scandinavian Enviro Systems
Country: Sweden | Funding: $27M
Enviro developed efficient tyre recycling technology. Recovering valuable resources and limiting the need for fossil exploitation.
7
RISORCE
Country: Belgium | Funding: €12.5M
RISORCE fills a need in Belgium for local tyre waste processing options.
8
Mycocycle
Country: USA | Funding: $6.4M
Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste. Mycocycle’s patent-pending process improves the natural functions of fungi to transform construction waste into low-carbon raw materials for the built environment.
9
Big Atom
Country: UK | Funding: £4.2M
Big Atom is initially focused on reverse-manufacturing tyre rubber into recycled crude.
10
Pyrum
Country: Germany
Pyrum develops, builds and operates recycling plants, with the help of which Pyrum extracts raw materials of high quality from used tyres, rubber and plastic waste and feeds them back into the material cycle.
11
Syntoil
Country: Poland | Funding: $1.2M
Syntoil is a systems transform end-of-life tires and rubber waste into commercial products.
12
Chanja Datti
Country: Nigeria | Funding: £850K
Chanja Datti is making Nigeria safer and cleaner by recycling Plastic (PET bottles, pure water sachet, nylon bags etc.) and other waste streams such as Aluminium cans, Paper (old newspapers, old textbooks, corrugated cardboard, carton etc.), Glass bottles and Tires.
13
Green Distillation Technologies
Country: Australia
Green Distillation Technologies is effectively and profitably recycling end of life car and truck tyres (ELTs) into saleable commodities of oil, carbon and steel.
14
Green Buddies
Country: India
Green buddies creates eco-designed cost effective "Recycled Play Stations" for children which will result in increased access to playgrounds to children.
15
Valley Tire Recycling
Country: USA
Valley Tire Recycling mission is to give renewed life to tires by converting them into reusable raw materials to be used by various industries and manufacturers to create different sustainable products. We do this by providing collection, remediation, and recycling services to the community and local scrap tire generators. Valley Tire Recycling is committed to keeping our community safe and environment clean.
16
DeDzines
Country: India
De’Dzines recycles and upcycles tyres into innovative utility products - Garden Furniture, pots and planters, baskets, benches, sculptures, swings, dustbins etc
17
T-Phite
Country: USA
At T-Phite, we are dedicated to driving sustainable battery solutions with a clear focus on minimizing our environmental impact. Unlike traditional graphite production methods that rely on scarce reserves and highly polluting extraction processes, our innovative technology offers a significantly lower carbon footprint.
18
Triton Ties
Country: USA
Experience the unmatched endurance and predictable quality of Triton Ties. Our precision extrusion technology and custom blend of recycled plastics and reinforcing additives puts Triton Ties on the efficient frontier of performance and cost. A true one-for-one replacement for wood, Triton Ties are engineered for the long haul.
19
Life for Tyres
Country: Spain
In the L4T Group we are evolving the way in which the raw materials, needed in various production processes are obtained.
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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