Circular Economy Startups

NOUS anti-gaspi operates a chain of anti-waste grocery stores in France, selling everyday products—groceries, fresh food, fruits and vegetables, and hygiene items—that have been rescued from food waste and offered at reduced prices. Products are sold because of damaged packaging, short remaining shelf life, discontinued references, bulk sale, physical imperfections, or late deliveries.

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Nova Carbon develops sustainable carbon fiber materials and intermediate composite formats (tapes, mats, preforms) designed for industrial manufacturing processes including infusion, prepreg, and thermoforming. The company serves marine, boating, and industrial sectors seeking lightweight, recyclable composite parts with consistent mechanical performance.

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Nukoko makes cocoa-free chocolate alternatives using European-grown fava beans, positioned as a lower-carbon, more sustainable option. It sells ingredients for chocolatiers, bakers, and dessert makers, with vegan milk-alternative and cocoa-replacer powder products planned.

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Offe.market is a marketplace that sells overstock, past-season, and sample sale fashion items at discounts. The platform helps brands reduce waste and avoid cheap liquidation while offering deals to customers.

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Oi manufactures certified organic tampons, pads, liners, reusable period underwear, and menstrual cups for women. The New Zealand-based company focuses on removing plastics, synthetics, and toxic chemicals from feminine hygiene products through sustainable packaging and organic materials.

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Olyns operates an AI-powered reverse vending machine called the Cube that incentivizes plastic recycling in retail locations by rewarding users with cash and perks, while funding the system through on-screen advertising revenue. The company combines recycling infrastructure with digital media to address plastic waste pollution and create a sustainable, self-funded circular economy model.

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Omocom develops embedded insurance solutions for sharing economy platforms, enabling companies to offer protection to users when renting, sharing, or borrowing assets. The company insures vehicles, accommodations, and goods across Europe.

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Omocom is a Swedish insurance company that provides embedded insurance solutions for the sharing economy, enabling platforms to offer protection to users when renting, sharing, or borrowing vehicles, properties, and goods across Europe.

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Parcel Health makes recyclable paper prescription packaging, including the Tully Tube paper pill bottle, as a replacement for plastic prescription vials. Its customizable, patient-centered packaging is aimed at pharmacies and hospitals in the United States.

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PeelON produces home-compostable active intelligent packaging liners for fresh produce that extend shelf life by regulating moisture and slowing microbial growth using plant-based bioactive agents. The company serves growers, exporters, and retailers seeking to reduce food waste and eliminate single-use plastics from produce supply chains.

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Pela offers the Lomi 3 Smart Waste System, a countertop appliance that breaks down household food scraps to reduce waste volume and eliminate kitchen odors and pests. It is a consumer home hardware product for managing food waste.

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Perfekto is a direct-to-consumer platform that delivers "imperfect" fresh produce—fruits and vegetables rejected for cosmetic or production reasons—directly from farms to customers' homes in Mexico. The service reduces food waste while offering consumers cheaper prices and fresher products while supporting farmers.

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Petit Pli makes children's clothing designed to expand and grow with a child over time, using materials such as ripstop breathable fabric. The products are direct-to-consumer childrenswear marketed with a focus on reducing waste from outgrown clothes.

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Pieter Pot is an online grocery service that sells packaging-free and plastic-free food and household staples delivered in reusable deposit jars and bottles, which customers return for a refund. It sells bulk and organic products and focuses on reducing food waste, serving consumers in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Pili manufactures biosourced and decarbonized industrial dyes and pigments for textiles, inks, polymers, paints, and coatings using hybrid fermentation and organic chemistry processes. The company aims to replace fossil fuel-derived colors with sustainable, high-performance alternatives, starting with indigo for the denim industry.

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Plantee focuses on developing plant-based or nature-derived materials with the aim of using resources sustainably and returning unused byproducts. The page describes a mission around re-imagining natural building blocks but provides limited concrete product detail.

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PNE Cycle operates a platform for producing battery materials, including battery-grade cathode active material (CAM) and Advanced Black Mass, using its patented LPAS recycling technology to recover critical minerals. The company targets energy storage, AI infrastructure, and electrification markets, with a focus on U.S. critical minerals and supply chain security.

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Polycarbin operates a circular economy for scientific plastics, offering a recycling service that diverts single-use lab consumables from landfills and turns them into new lab products. It serves research laboratories and provides low-carbon consumables plus a carbon-emissions reporting dashboard to measure sustainability impact.

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Poppins operates a peer-to-peer rental marketplace where individuals, professionals, and local shops in the same neighborhood lend and rent everyday objects, with booking, owner messaging, and a guarantee system handled in one app. The platform positions itself around reducing overconsumption and serves consumers in France.

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Pretred manufactures products from waste tires and plastics with a focus on environmental sustainability. The company operates a manufacturing facility and serves environmentally conscious customers and businesses.

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PureCycle uses a patented purification process to recycle polypropylene (No. 5) plastic waste into PureFive resin, a virgin-like recycled resin. It supplies this recycled polypropylene at scale to companies seeking sustainable resin materials.

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PVpallet makes reusable, recyclable packaging for the solar and renewable energy industry, including its HDPE plastic Series X solar panel pallets, bulk bins, and handheld totes. It also offers packaging consulting, custom solutions, and a reverse logistics program with product tracking, cleaning, and refurbishment to replace single-use packaging.

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Pyxo provides a reusable packaging (réemploi) solution that retail and foodservice chains integrate into their customer journeys, without an upfront deposit for the retailer. It supplies reusable containers, washing and logistics through partners, communication kits, and manages returns and recovery, with support for pilots and rollouts across 10 to 1000+ points of sale.

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R3 Robotics builds automated systems for disassembling and dismantling electric vehicle batteries and complete EV systems, including e-drives and power electronics, at industrial scale. Its robotics and computer-vision platform serves EV battery recycling, reuse, and material recovery operations, with a stated focus on Europe.

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