Sugeo

Sugeo, operating in Korea under the name 오늘수거, runs a contact-free household waste collection service ordered through a mobile app. Users place mixed waste in a collection bag and leave it at their door; no separation or rinsing by the customer is required. Accepted items include leftover delivery food, broken small appliances, recyclables, parcel packaging, assorted paper, used cosmetics, old clothes and bedding, and kitchenware — the stated rule is that anything fitting inside the collection bag can be discarded.

Ordering is done by selecting a quantity in the app. Requests placed before 10 p.m. are collected the same day, and pickups can also be booked for a chosen date within the following week. Collected bags are moved to a directly operated sorting facility called 내일순환, where waste passes through a four-stage pre-treatment process: bag opening and spreading, sorting clean resources from contaminated ones, removing food residue and other contaminants that impede recycling, and washing the remaining recyclables so they can re-enter the materials stream.

Business model

Consumer-facing service in which households pay per pickup for door-to-door collection of unsorted waste, with the company performing sorting, separation and washing in-house at its own facility to produce recyclable material.

Per-pickup fees charged to users: a visit fee of KRW 2,500 plus a weight-based charge of KRW 140 per 100g. The weight of the discarded bag is photographed and confirmed before payment.

Traction

The company reports more than 730,000 cumulative members, over 2.2 million cumulative pickups and more than 26 million single-use containers recycled, as of July 2026.