This article showcases our top picks for the best United States based Recycling companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Recycling industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top United States Recycling Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Rheaply
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Rheaply’s platform enables organizations to exchange materials and resources more effectively, eliminating unnecessary waste and spend.
ecoATM
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ecoATM is an e-waste recycling company. ecoATM kiosks evaluate and purchase used electronics from consumers for cash or store credit.
Terracycle
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TerraCycle recycles non-recyclable waste into various consumer products.
RoadRunner Recycling
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RoadRunner Recycling is a provider of a data-driven waste management platform for commercial waste recycling.
Commercial Metals Company
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Commercial Metals is a vertically integrated, Fortune 500 steel company that recycles, manufactures, fabricates, and trades steel globally.
Recycle Track Systems
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Recycle Track Systems helps companies track and optimize their pickups, from on-demand removal to integrated waste management.
Terex
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Terex Corportion is a set of manufacturing companies focusing on infrastructure support via their handling and lifting equipment.
Battery Resourcers
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Battery Resourcers brings sustainable closed loop recycling to the Li-ion battery industry.
Novoloop
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Advanced upcycling company creating quality chemicals and materials made from plastic waste
Recyclops
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Recyclops is a startup technology company that innovates customer-centric and sustainability solutions.
Fair Harbor
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Fair Harbor converts plastic waste from the ocean into functional swimwear.
Advanced Disposal Services
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Advanced Disposal brings fresh ideas and solutions to the business of a clean environment.
PureCycle Technologies
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PureCycle Technologies offers the only recycled polypropylene with properties equal to virgin polymer.
Nth Cycle
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Nth Cycle is a metal processing technology company working with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals.
Spoiler Alert
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Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory
Psudo
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Psudo manufactures sneakers that are locally sourced and built with recycled materials.
Circ
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Tyton BioSciences helps industries meet consumer expectations for sustainability without compromises in quality, price, or convenience.
Boomerang Water
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Boomerang Water sanitizes, fills, and caps glass and aluminum bottles of water on-site for immediate sale and consumption.
Urban Mining Company
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Urban Mining Company develops a proprietary Magnet-to-Magnetärecycling process.
Battle motors
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Battle motors is a technology leader in the electrification of commercial vehicles.
Vertex Energy
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Vertex Energy is an environmental services company that recycles industrial waste streams and commercial chemical products.
Glacier
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Glacier is an innovation leader in AI-powered robotic waste technology.
AMP Robotics
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AMP Robotics is a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.
Waste Eliminator
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Waste Eliminator is a full service waste management company that offers critical disposal, recycling, and environmental solutions.
CleanRobotics
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CleanRobotics makes recycling affordable for businesses, and profitable for recyclers.
rePurpose Global
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World’s leading Plastic Action Platform dedicated to reducing waste, reviving lives, and restoring nature’s balance
PartsTrader Markets Limited
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Online marketplace for auto parts trading more than $1.4B per annum with tens of thousands of business users in the US and New Zealand.
Infinite Cooling
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Infinite Cooling is a renewables and environment company that specializes in wastewater management and recycling.
Everywhere Apparel
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Everywhere Apparel manufactures clothes created from recycled textiles intended to clean the earth while clothing the planet.
Arqlite
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Arqlite is a recycling technology company that provides efficiency materials for industries, made from plastic waste.
Goodfair
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Goodfair is a unisex online thrift marketplace that recycles pre-loved goods.
Organica Water
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Organica Water develops solutions for treating and recycling wastewater.
Turn
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1/3 most innovative companies in reuse – Partners of Nestle, AbInBev, WM & more Returnable is the new reusable.
Material World
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Material World is a personal styling service delivering pre-owned designer items at 90% off retail
Grubbly Farms
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Grubbly Farms develops healthy and sustainable pet food using farm-grown black soldier fly grubs.
Closed Loop Partners
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Closed Loop Partners invests in sustainable consumer goods, advanced recycling technologies and the development of the circular economy.
WasteZero
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WasteZero specializes in providing waste reduction programs to protect the environment.
Rubicon
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Rubicon is a software platform that provides smart waste and recycling solutions for businesses and governments worldwide.
PlantSwitch
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PlantSwitch manufactures plant-based and biodegradable day-to-day products.
Compost Crew
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Compost Crew operates as an organics recycling business that provides composting services.
Evergreen
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Evergreen aims to provide a sustainable, reliable supply of quality polyester resin and also pioneers in plastic recycling
GreenSpark Software
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GreenSpark Software provides an end-to-end, web-based software solution for metal recyclers.
JanOne
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JanOne is a pharmaceutical company focused on finding treatments for conditions that cause severe pain and bringing to market drugs.
Vartega
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Vartega manufactures low-cost recycled carbon fiber sourced from various dry fiber and pre-preg scraps.
Circulus
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Circulus transforms olefin plastics into resins suitable for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications.
Replenysh
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Replenysh builds the operating system of material recovery.
9Fiber
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9Fiber is a waste management, agro-technology company created to serve the cannabis industry.
California Safe Soil
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California Safe Soil is a fresh food recycler that increases the productivity of farms at a low cost.
OnePak
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OnePak provides tech-enabled, carbon-neutral, sustainable reverse logistics.
Smarter Sorting
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Smarter Sorting helps companies know more about consumer products to make, market and move them better.
CarbonLITE Industries
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CarbonLITE Industries offers recycles, processes, and reuses plastic bottles and other products.
Atlas Organics
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Atlas Organics is a operator of a composting facility intended to offer organic food recycling services.
Accent Wire-Tie
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Accent Wire-Tie is a distributing network supplying baling wire and other bale packaging consumables to the waste and recycling industry.
Sellars
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Sellars manufactures shop towels, disposable wipers, towel and tissue, and absorbents that are made with recycled fibers.
Seabags
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Sea Bags designs and manufactures tote bags from recycled sails.
Recleim
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Recleim is a next-generation appliance and electronic recycling company that provides environmentally-sound recycling and resource recovery.
Thread
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Thread transforms plastic waste from the developing world into socially and environmentally responsible fabric.
Tribogenics
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Tribogenics offers miniature x-ray solutions for applications in the recycling, mining, industrial, military and medical imaging industries.
Li Industries
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Li Industries is a start-up company focusing on developing the next generation of lithium-ion battery recycling technologies
DTG Recycle
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DTG Recycle is a renewables and environment company.
Green Machine Equipment
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Green Machine Equipment is which makes battery-powered industrial machinery.
Better Bean
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Better Bean offers a locally-grown line of freshly made beans in recyclable containers.
CLEARAS Water Recovery
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CLEARAS Water Recovery is a provider of wastewater treatment services used to recover contaminants in wastewater.
Ccilu
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“Ccilu” (CHEE-loo) means “liberate” in Japanese, and “liberate yourself” is our call to action.
H2O Midstream
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H2O Midstream is committed to reducing the cost of water for producers and improving environmental and safety conditions.
Quest Resource Holding Corporation
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Quest Resource Holding Corporation, formerly Infinity Resources Holdings Corp., through its subsidiaries, provides management programs
Winter Brothers Waste Systems
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Winters Bros. Waste Systems offers waste removal, garbage collection, transfer, and recycling services.
Momentum Technologies
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Momentum is a lithium-ion battery recycling company that has developed a patented modular, scalable battery recycling technology.
OriginClear
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OriginClear is a provider of water treatment solutions and aggregator of water treatment companies.
2B0 (To Be Zero)
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2B0.io (To Be Zero) is developing a simple AI-powered recycling robot for home, office and retail locations.
International Recycling Group
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International Recycling Group is the plastics recycling plan to process all types and grades of post-use plastic.
Verdafresh
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Verdafresh provides state-of-the-art flexible packaging to preserve food freshness and enable the circular economy.
Blue Marble Biomaterials
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Blue Marble Biomaterials manufactures renewable specialty chemicals for the food, fragrance, cosmetics, and personal care industries.
BCR Environmental
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BCR Environmental is a clean-technology company focusing on the water and wastewater treatment industries.
normal
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Normal is empowering small businesses to address climate change and lower their carbon footprint with an innovative robo-consultant
Quoteapro
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Quoteapro is a digital marketplace for recyclables.
CyberCrunch
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Cybercrunch provides nationwide electronics recycling and hard drive shredding services.
Metro Metals Northwest
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Metro Metals Northwest is a scrap metal business that buys a wide range of ferrous and nonferrous materials.
Nexus eWater
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Nexus eWater is a home water recycling platform that develops solutions converting grey water for home water and energy use.
SALUBATA
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SALUBATA invents lifestyle technologies that benefit both people and the environment.
Winters Bros. Waste Systems
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Winters Bros Waste Systems facilitates collection of waste, recycle and transfer stations in Florida, Vermont, Long Island and Connecticut.
CarbonLite Holdings
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CarbonLite Holdings specializes in plastics recycling services intended to recycle used plastic bottles for environment conservation.
BioTork
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BioTork is a biotechnology company that focuses on sustainability through the development of microbial strains and bioconversion processes.
GKAT Reclamation
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GKAT Reclamation is providing an ecologically safe recycling method and lowering your carbon footprint.
Alkemy Environmental
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Alkemy is a cleantech company that converts industrial waste streams into environmentally friendly concrete aggregate.
Eureka Recycling
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Eureka Recycling specializes in waste reduction through reuse, recycling and composting.
Black Earth Compost
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Black Earth Compost is offers curbside pickup or buy bulk finished compost, sustainable waste management in Eastern Mass.
Nomadix
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Nomadix manufactures towels for yoga, beach, camping, and travel made from certified recycled materials.
Connora Technologies
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Connora builds relationships with manufacturers
Nutrient Recovery & Upcycling
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NRU promotes the long-term benefit of communities and the environment through resource upcycling and sustainable nutrient management.
Zinc Resources
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Zinc Resources helps the steel industry to safely and cost-effectively recycle the hazardous waste produced in steel production.
Sustainable Alternative Feed Enterprises
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Sustainable Alternative Feed Enterprises is an innovative company specializing in food waste diversion and recycling.
Greene Lyon Group
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Greene Lyon Group develops and licenses proprietary technologies focused primarily on recycling precious metals from scrap materials.
Muuse
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Muuse aims to eliminate single-use plastics by introducing a deposit system to its products supported by a tech enabled system.
City Carting & Recycling
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Waste collection & management company – Provides Dumpster Rental, Residential and Commercial garbage collection
Steel Dynamics
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Steel Dynamics is a diversified carbon-steel producer, metals recycler and one of the largest American steel companies.
PurFi
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PurFi is a technology company making virgin quality products waste.
Iterant
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Iterant is the Circular Economy platform that helps manufacturers and brands build profitable, sustainable business models.
Nazareth Pallet
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Nazareth Pallet customizes, recycles, and rebuilds wooden pallets.
