Top 78 Waste Collection and Transportation startups

Updated: Jan 30, 2026
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These startups develop new waste collection appliances, gamify and reward people involvement, operate services that optimize waste logistics.
1
Recycle UA
Country: Ukraine
Recycle is a waste collection service in Ukraine for companies and condominiums. It offers a mobile app that allows to create a business account and submit waste collection requests. Clients are responsible for sorting the waste and receive payment for it from the service. The app allows to analyze KPIs and sales history for each of company's divisions, generate primary documentation for all contracts related to the sale of recyclable materials with electronic signatures, and generate waste management reports for the business in accordance with current legislation.
2
RoadRunner Recycling
Country: USA | Funding: $174.1M
RoadRunner Recycling provides tech-powered solutions for commercial waste recycling which helps businesses lower recurring costs.
3
Recycle Track Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $151.7M
Recycle Track Systems helps companies track and optimize their pickups, from on-demand removal to integrated waste management. RTS’ Pello waste sensor technology provides insights into container contents, fill levels, contamination, bin location and temperature.
4
Enevo
Country: Finland | Funding: $55.4M
Enevo is a forward-thinking company with a vision to transform the financial, environmental and social impact of waste. Thanks to Enevo’s sensor and analytic software, you only pay for the pick-ups you need and that reduces your costs.
5
TerraCycle
Country: USA | Funding: $6.8M
TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. TerraCycle recycles non-recyclable waste into various consumer products.
6
SuperBin
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩43B
SuperBin’s recycling solutions include a reverse vending machine called Nephron, a waste supermarket where people can purchase recycled products, and a logistics chain for recyclable items.
7
Ecube Labs
Country: South Korea | Funding: $19.4M
Ecube Labs develops smart waste management solutions and remote monitoring tools. Its line of products include solar-powered waste compacting bins, ultrasonic fill-level sensors that can be fitted to any type of container, and a data and predictive analytic clean city platform.
8
Seenons
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €16M
Seenons' platform and app matches waste with businesses that upcycle waste into new products, giving it a new life.
9
Nordsense
Country: USA | Funding: $12.6M
Nordsense offers a simple and affordable solution that optimizes waste collection processes. Whether you represent a city, waste operator or organization that handles waste management, our system can drastically reduce your capital expenditure and carbon footprint, while improving workflows.
10
Sensoneo
Country: Slovakia | Funding: €12.6M
Sensoneo is a global enterprise-grade smart waste management solution provider that enables cities and businesses to manage their waste efficiently, be more environmentally responsible and improve the well-being of people. The solution combines unique ultrasonic Smart Sensors that monitor waste in real-time with sophisticated software providing cities and businesses with digital transformation, data-driven decision making, and optimization of waste collection routes, frequencies and vehicle loads.
11
Trash Warrior
Country: USA | Funding: $12.7M
Trash Warrior is creating "Uber for trash". Trash Warrior’s service offers on-demand removal of junk, furniture and cardboard through a platform linking to a network of third-party haulers, allowing residential and commercial customers to schedule pick-ups and pay online.
12
Close the Loop
Country: Australia
Close the Loop is dedicated to making the Circular Economy a reality by providing best-in-class sustainability solutions to companies that want to enhance their Corporate Social Responsibility through effective and efficient recovery and re-use of valuable resources from their products. With a steadfast commitment to zero waste to landfill, the company draws on its strength in innovation to handle even the most challenging materials.
13
Bower
Country: Sweden | Funding: $7.4M
Bower is a mobile app that enables deposit of packages and products at existing recycling stations.
14
Octopus
Country: Indonesia | Funding: $5M
Octopus is a new waste management application to efficiently collect & connect valuable waste to recycling industry
15
Olyns
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
A HW/SW platform combining AI, reverse vending, advertising, and the gig economy for a scalable and profitable solution to recycling plastic
16
Recyclops
Country: USA | Funding: $4.9M
Recyclops, uses an Uber-like model to bring waste collection to areas where it wouldn’t be feasible otherwise.
17
WeVOIS
Country: India | Funding: ₹400M
WeVOIS Labs is a solid waste management company which provides automated IoT- based, door to door waste collection solutions.
18
EcoTree
Country: Romania | Funding: €4.3M
EcoTree, an innovative digital platform addressed to the field of circular economy, waste recycling. EcoTree helps collector and recycling companies to target and get in touch with new customers, reduce their logistic costs and ease the interaction with authorities.
19
Kabadiwala
Country: India | Funding: $3.4M
TheKabadiwala works on waste management and organizing the waste sector.
20
Dawarha
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.
21
RecycleSmart
Country: Australia | Funding: $2.8M
RecycleSmart makes recycling the tough stuff easy as ordering an Uber.
22
WeCyclers
Country: Nigeria | Funding: $2.5M
Wecyclers offers convenient household recycling service using a fleet of low-cost cargo bikes.
23
Recircula Solutions
Country: Spain | Funding: €2.4M
ReCircula Solutions offers waste management solution for the urban cities and pharmaceutical industries. It includes waste container device with IoT sensor, AI for waste identification, mobile app for citizens to earn points. It allows waste managers and city councils to apply the correct reward mechanism in order to increase packaging recycling rates.
24
Include
Country: Croatia | Funding: €2.1M
Include is a hardware startup that develops and manufactures smart street furniture. Its public cans use sustainable solar power to reduce waste collection by up to 80%, thus lowering operational costs, decreasing carbon footprint, and creating a cleaner environment within our communities. It combines solar power and technology to provide garbage collectors insight on its fill levels, resulting in shorter drives, less fuel consumption, and cleaner air.
25
Whitespace Work Software
Country: UK
Whitespace Work Software is the leading provider of waste and environmental solutions in the UK. We help our customers to deliver a more efficient service by providing them with the most innovative waste management software and environmental solution on the market.
26
Oneul Sugeo
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩2.5B
Ugly Lab is a startup specializing in household waste recycling technologies, offering subscription services and waste collection consultations. It allows residents to avoid sorting their trash themselves and instead place everything in a single bag. Korean waste sorting regulations are very strict, with over 10 categories and sorting one package on your own can take an hour. After collection, waste goes through several stages: unpacking bags, sorting, separating contaminated and clean materials, and cleaning/washing recyclable items. Ugly Lab also offers this service for offices and buildings.
27
3R Management
Country: India | Funding: $1.5M
3RM is a solution first company enabling modern technologies and spirit to curb the waste management problem in the world.
28
SmartEnds
Country: Belgium | Funding: $1.4M
Smartends Offers advanced bin sensors that monitor waste levels in real-time, providing crucial data for optimizing collection routes. This data-driven approach helps reduce operational costs, minimize carbon emissions, and improve overall efficiency in waste management.
29
SGRecycle
Country: Singapore | Funding: $1.4M
SGRecycle is a Singapore-based green technology start-up that collects waste paper and in return for reward points.
30
Solagro
Country: Serbia
Solagro is a smart city startup that creates digital solutions for beverage packs recycling. It developes a smart can-pressing machine which rewards and communicates with users.
31
Binpong
Country: USA | Funding: $1M
BinPong is an innovative waste management platform streamlining recycling and waste disposal for businesses and communities.
32
Lasso
Country: USA
The home recycling solution that gives back to you and the planet
33
Trashie
Country: USA
Trashie gives people an easy and convenient way to recycle unwanted clothing, shoes, accessories, linens, and more, keeping waste out of landfills for as long as possible and helping drive impact.
34
Green Mining
Country: Brazil
Green Mining has developed an Intelligent Reverse Logistics technology to efficiently retrieve post-consumer packaging and bring it back into the production cycle. The startup formalizes work for people with few job opportunities and uses non-motorized vehicles, such as tricycles, to make collections, avoiding CO2 emissions.
35
Bintix
Country: India | Funding: ₹83.5M
Bintix mission is to provide scheduled recyclable collection at your doorstep while at the same time work towards a zero landfill future and do it in a green way that’s inclusive of India’s scrap dealers and waste pickers.
36
Bigbelly
Country: USA
Bigbelly transforms the way organizations manage waste & recycling, while saving time, fuel and money and beautifying their public space.
37
ZeLoop
Country: UAE
ZeLoop has developed an app that informs users of recycling options and rewards them for bringing recyclables to those sites.
38
Oysterable
Country: South Korea | Funding: ₩50M
Oysterable’s smart IoT recycling solutions involve smart waste collection and mobile applications for local governments and businesses. The smart waste collection solution allows people to participate in the recycling process and get numerous rewards through their smart IoT recycling bin.
39
Pakam
Country: Nigeria | Funding: $635K
Digital marketplace for waste, recycling, and smart enforcement.
40
ECOWRAP
Country: India | Funding: $500K
‘Ecowrap’ is a one stop solution for waste segregation, tracking, collection, recycling, and up-cycling. Our model is entirely based on waste segregation at source and to make this sector financially viable. To promote waste segregation at source we provide all required Infrastructure like Smart Dustbins, Training, Doorstep Pickup and Tech enabling the process for 4-degree primary segregation of the waste. To ensure long term participation in source segregation ECOWRAP incentivize waste generator based on the segregation rating. Our route tracking APIs help us ensure that requested pickups should transferred to nearest collection truck in that area. We are building an efficient reverse supply chain through our APP and real-time data of waste from our dustbins. We are seed funding by Social Alpha and Villgro Foundation. We were selected in Top-30 Waste Management Company in India in the Swachchata Startup Conclave 2022 held in Delhi hosted and organized by MoHUA, GOI.
41
Klean
Country: Malaysia | Funding: $MYR2M
Klean is a digital container deposit system, encouraging consumers to recycle their empty plastic containers.
42
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.
43
Regenize
Country: South Africa | Funding: $300K
Regenize provides a residential recycling collection service in South Africa and reward residents with Remali when they recycle.
44
Reaquila,
Country: Spain | Funding: $302.5K
Reaquila is a digital platform empowering post-consumer packaging circularity
45
Infinite Cercle
Country: India | Funding: $286K
Cerclex is the leading waste management company provids you,all type of scrap deals at affordable rates.We used to both buy and sell scrap in coimbatore.The company we owning is Cercle X which is located at coimbatore ,and they use digital technology which provides SaaS based solutions for the waste management and recycling industry.
46
Pixies
Country: Italy | Funding: €180K
Pixies is developing a small army of autonomous litter pickers, capable of sweeping through urban environments collecting trash.
47
Scrapays
Country: Nigeria | Funding: $172.4K
Nigerian clean-tech startup Scrapays is fusing recycling, technology and finance to help businesses and households sell off their recyclable waste in a convenient manner and at premium prices.
48
Plstka
Country: Egypt | Funding: $155K
Plstka is a Egypt-based solid waste management and recycling company that collects solid trash from gamification mobile app.
49
Intuitive AI
Country: Canada | Funding: $150K
Intuitive AI develops Waste Management Platform for global enterprises, making measurement, management and improvement on waste - transparent & intuitive. It uses computer vision to sort waste.
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Scrapp
Country: USA | Funding: $100K
Scrapp is the free app and tablet station that scans your waste and provides the correct disposal guidance, wherever you are in the world.
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