This article showcases our top picks for the best United States based Waste Management companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Waste Management 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 Waste Management Startups
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Goodr
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Goodr is a sustainable surplus food management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.
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.
Shelf Engine
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Shelf Engine is a provider of an automated prediction engine that predicts the perfect amount of perishable goods to order.
GFL Environmental
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GFL (Green for Life) Environmental Inc., comprised of Liquid Waste Division (East & West), Solid Waste Haulage Division, Solid Waste.
RoadRunner Recycling
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RoadRunner Recycling is a provider of a data-driven waste management platform for commercial waste recycling.
Elemental Excelerator
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Elemental Excelerator helps startups change the world, one community at a time.
Terracycle
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TerraCycle recycles non-recyclable waste into various consumer products.
Zero Grocery
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Zero Grocery provides a convenient zero-waste grocery delivery service.
Compology
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Compology is building technology focused on increasing efficiency and revenue growth for waste and recycling companies.
Novoloop
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Advanced upcycling company creating quality chemicals and materials made from plastic waste
Re-Nuble
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Re-Nuble is an agtech company that transforms unrecoverable vegetative food into a platform of sustainable technologies for indoor growing
Copia
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Copia is the next-generation technology platform for food waste management.
PureCycle Technologies
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PureCycle Technologies offers the only recycled polypropylene with properties equal to virgin polymer.
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.
Gradiant
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Gradiant is a leading global solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for advanced water & wastewater treatment.
Evoqua Water Technologies
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Evoqua Water Technologies provides products, solutions, and services to ensure water quality and consistency.
Bolder Industries
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Bolder Industries offers advanced manufacturer or sustainable alternatives to carbon black and performance petrochemicals.
ENCINA
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ENCINA provides technology solutions to develop renewable products from plastic waste.
Spoiler Alert
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Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory
Glacier
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Glacier is an innovation leader in AI-powered robotic waste technology.
Trash Warrior
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Trash Warrior is a tech-enabled platform for B2B waste management solutions. Clients include Amazon, Tuft & Needle, Holiday Inn, etc.
Advanced Drainage Systems
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Advanced Drainage Systems provides drainage solutions and water management products to the stormwater and wastewater industries.
Advanced Disposal Services
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Advanced Disposal brings fresh ideas and solutions to the business of a clean environment.
Allonnia
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Allonnia is a bioremediation company focused on waste management.
Package Free
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Package Free is a retailer that sells products that help to live a zero or low-waste lifestyle.
Rubicon
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Rubicon is a software platform that provides smart waste and recycling solutions for businesses and governments worldwide.
Raven
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Raven is a producer of green hydrogen and synthetic fuels using organic waste.
Full Cycle Bioplastics
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Full Cycle Bioplastics transforms organic waste into the lowest-cost, lowest-carbon materials on the planet
Leanpath
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LeanPath, Inc. is the devoloper of products and solutions that target food waste.
Mi Terro
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Mi Terro create ocean degradable and home compostable biomaterials made from agricultural waste.
CleanRobotics
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CleanRobotics makes recycling affordable for businesses, and profitable for recyclers.
Epic Cleantec
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Epic Cleantec is a full-service water reuse firm that provides turnkey wastewater treatment and reuse systems for customers.
BiOWiSH Technologies
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BiOWiSH develops and manufactures products that provide solutions for environmental management, agri-business, and consumer products.
AMP Robotics
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AMP Robotics is a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry.
BinIt
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BinIt develops an AI-based tech to revolutionize waste segregation.
Verity
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Verity offers a variety of plastic-free packaging solutions to businesses.
Agricycle
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Agricycle transforms food waste and agricultural byproducts into all-natural and organic CPG brands.
Ubuntoo
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Ubuntoo is a global collaboration platform for accelerating the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Renovare Environmental
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Renovare Environmental uses Green Technology and Big Data to dispose of organic waste, cut costs, and drive sustainability.
Goodnight Midstream
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Goodnight Midstream is a provider of water handling and salt water disposal services to the oil and gas industry.
rePurpose Global
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World’s leading Plastic Action Platform dedicated to reducing waste, reviving lives, and restoring nature’s balance
CurbWaste
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CurbWaste revolutionizes the waste management ecosystem through its cloud-based and data-driven cleantech platform.
Infinite Cooling
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Infinite Cooling is a renewables and environment company that specializes in wastewater management and recycling.
WISErg
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WISErg is a hybrid technology company specializing in technology, waste management, and resource conservation.
RedZone Robotics
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RedZone Robotics is a provider of wastewater asset management solutions.
PRTI
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PRTI is a full service environmental energy and technology firm.
Organica Water
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Organica Water develops solutions for treating and recycling wastewater.
Algenesis
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Algenesis is a material science and technology company that helps the planet recover from the pollution by-products made from fossil fuels.
Circulus
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Circulus transforms olefin plastics into resins suitable for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications.
WasteZero
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WasteZero specializes in providing waste reduction programs to protect the environment.
Chi Botanic
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Chi Botanic is a cellular agriculture company that provides a synthetic biology pipeline to leverage the power of the plant cell.
Replate
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Replate provides tech and logistics to match surplus food from businesses with communities in need to reduce food waste and end hunger.
RePurpose Energy
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RePurpose Energy gives electric vehicle batteries a “second life” in lower-cost, more sustainable solar energy storage systems
FloWaste
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FloWaste is a food analytic platform that optimizes supplier comparative analysis, meal performance, and food wastage.
Polycarbin
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Polycarbin is a resource management platform reimagining the future of plastics and their role within the life sciences.
OnSite Waste Technologies
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OnSite Waste Technologies reduces the cost, risk, and environmental impact of medical waste processing and disposal.
PegEx
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PegEx provides the digital operating system that solves the compliance and data challenges in the waste management industry.
Gross-Wen Technologies
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Gross-Wen Technologies is a biotechnology company that specializes in the fields of water quality, wastewater, and water nitrogen.
Phoenix Tailings
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Founded to bring a new level of sustainability and efficiency to the mining industry by enabling new sources of primary metals.
EnMass Energy
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EnMass Energy is a digital procurement and operations platform for global waste-to-energy supply chains.
CompostNow
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CompostNow collect food scraps from residents and businesses to help them reduce waste and support local gardens.
Atlas Organics
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Atlas Organics is a operator of a composting facility intended to offer organic food recycling services.
Reterro
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Reterro is an emerging green remediation company focused on eliminating hydrocarbon contamination from soil and ongoing waste streams.
Baswood
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Baswood offers a range of industrial and municipal markets with technology solutions to treat wastewater and bio-solids.
Emvolon
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Emvolon is a technology company developing a platform for distributed chemical production from resources that otherwise would be wasted.
GPB Capital Holdings
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GPB Capital is a New York-based alternative asset management firm that seeks to acquire income-producing private companies.
Pretred
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Pretred repurposes waste tires and plastics into innovative and efficient industrial use barriers and blocks.
Concrete Pumping Holdings
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Concrete Pumping Holdings is a provider of concrete pumping services and concrete waste management solutions.
Green Machine Equipment
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Green Machine Equipment is which makes battery-powered industrial machinery.
Northeastern Biochar Solutions
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Northeastern Biochar Solutions serves the waste management, agriculture, and manufacturing industries.
Quest Resource Holding Corporation
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Quest Resource Holding Corporation, formerly Infinity Resources Holdings Corp., through its subsidiaries, provides management programs
Ambrosia
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Ambrosia offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry.
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.
Recleim
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Recleim is a next-generation appliance and electronic recycling company that provides environmentally-sound recycling and resource recovery.
BCR Environmental
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BCR Environmental is a clean-technology company focusing on the water and wastewater treatment industries.
Fresh Bowl
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Fresh Bowl, a tech-enabled food brand, builds the first zero-packaging waste option for on-the-go meals.
Optimus Technologies
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Optimus Technologies is the market leader in EPA compliant biodiesel conversion systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Waste Resource Technologies
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Waste Resource Technologies is a fully-integrated waste collection, recovery and conversion company.
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.
Denali Water Solutions
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Denali Water Solutions is a specialty waste and environmental services company.
CLEARAS Water Recovery
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CLEARAS Water Recovery is a provider of wastewater treatment services used to recover contaminants in wastewater.
Tergeo Technologies
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Tergeo Technologies is a developer of robotic solutions to sanitation challenges.
ECO Integrated Technologies
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ECO Integrated Technologies is a cleantech company that produces water alternative and solid waste conversion.
Sniffer Robotics
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A New Performance Standard for Managing Methane Emissions
Micronic Technologies
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Micronic Technologies is a developer of a water treatment system that removes all contaminants from any water source.
Winter Brothers Waste Systems
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Winters Bros. Waste Systems offers waste removal, garbage collection, transfer, and recycling services.
YourLocal
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YourLocal is a profitable solution to food waste food at retail
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.
Waste Management
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Waste Management is a provider of waste and environmental services in North America.
Wastebits
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Wastebits is a web-based platform that streamlines the management of regulated waste for waste generators and treatment facilities.
HK Solutions Group
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HK Solutions Group offers industrial cleaning and hydro blasting services like manhole inspection, pipe cleaning and wastewater treatment.
Petro Waste Environmental
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Petro Waste Environmental provides oilfield environmental services and solid waste disposal.
Alkemy Environmental
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Alkemy is a cleantech company that converts industrial waste streams into environmentally friendly concrete aggregate.
SCE Environmental Group
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SCE Environmental Group is a environmental company performing environmental remediation, oil & gas services, demolition, waste management.
Tusaar
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Tusaar is a consumer service company commercializing a metal removal water treatment technology initially.
BullBag
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The BullBag is a reusable dumpster bag for both home and job-site cleanup – contractor tough, holds up to 10-cubic yards and 4,500lbs!
County Waste
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County Waste offers solid waste management services, including collection, transportation, transfer and recycling.
PolyCera Membranes
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A Los Angeles, CA-based developer of membrane technology for industrial wastewater treatment.
