Circular Economy Startups

Circular Route offers operator-managed, AI-powered services that launch, grow, and automate circular economy programs such as reverse logistics, resale, repair, and recycling. It serves enterprises, governments, and early-stage circular economy and climate tech startups, combining experienced operators with dedicated AI engineering teams.

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Circulate is an AI-powered platform that reads supplier files such as PDFs, spreadsheets, and certificates into a single structured packaging database, then generates compliance declarations and reports for EU PPWR requirements. It serves European packaging suppliers and brands that need to collect, verify, and report packaging data.

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Circulate is a European platform that connects businesses with verified sustainable packaging suppliers, reducing sourcing time from months to weeks while ensuring transparency and eliminating greenwashing. The platform helps companies make informed packaging decisions through supplier vetting, honest sustainability ratings, and regulatory guidance.

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Circulose produces recycled dissolving pulp (CIRCULOSE®) as a substitute for virgin pulp in regenerated fiber production, serving brands and supply-chain partners seeking to integrate circular materials at scale. The company offers an integrated platform combining the material with design support, sourcing services, traceability, and pricing optimization to reduce the cost barrier of sustainable material adoption.

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Circulus develops systems that use ion activity monitoring to optimize nutrient concentrations in agricultural operations, replacing chemical fertilizers with organic alternatives while leveraging data analytics to improve extraction efficiency and yield.

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CIRT is a data and software platform for managing sustainable packaging compliance, labeling, recovery data, and impact tracking, helping brands meet regulatory requirements such as EPR reporting across multiple jurisdictions. It serves brands, manufacturers, retailers, waste/recovery operators, and institutions working on circular economy and packaging sustainability challenges.

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Clariter transforms plastic waste into high-quality waxes, oils, and solvents as replacements for fossil-based petrochemicals, serving manufacturers across industrial and consumer applications.

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Clean Earth provides waste management and environmental services, handling treatment, recycling, and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, contaminated soil, dredged materials, electronic waste, and pharmaceuticals. It serves businesses across the United States through a nationwide network of treatment and recycling facilities.

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Clean Harbors provides environmental, waste management, and industrial services, including hazardous waste disposal, recycling, chemical packing, emergency response, and field and specialty services. It serves industries such as chemical manufacturing, energy, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, government, refining, and transportation across the United States, Canada, and internationally.

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Cleanaway is Australia's largest waste management and solutions provider, offering integrated infrastructure and services focused on high-circularity and low-carbon waste handling for customers.

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EnviroVac, known as "The Clean Company," provides industrial and environmental cleaning services including vacuum truck material recovery, fugitive dust removal, soil excavation, chemical cleaning, waste transport and disposal, and video inspection. It serves industrial clients handling hazardous and non-hazardous materials, with a strong emphasis on worker safety.

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Clean Solutions Group manufactures nonwoven cleaning and filtration products for janitorial, sanitation, and commercial markets. The company combines Americo Manufacturing Company (cleaning solutions and floor pads) and Fibrix Filtration (air, liquid, and specialty filtration media) into a single sustainable nonwoven products manufacturer.

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Cleanpipe is a Swedish company offering project-managed services with dedicated project leaders and a traffic/vehicle operations function. The team page provides contact details for quotes, agreements, and site visits.

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Recology operates a network of over 26 waste collection companies providing integrated services to residential and commercial customers across California, Oregon, and Washington.

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CWR provides configuration, data migration, training, and ongoing optimisation services for a modular waste management system aimed at operational and compliance teams.

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CLIMATEX develops dissolvable thread technologies that enable textile products to be disassembled and recycled at end-of-life without changing existing machinery or manufacturing processes. The company licenses its technologies across the textile value chain to brands, manufacturers, and designers seeking circular production solutions.

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ClimeCo advises organizations on sustainability and provides carbon offset projects and related environmental market services. It focuses on helping companies reduce and manage their environmental impact.

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Cling Systems brokers lithium-ion batteries in all conditions—brand new, surplus, used, and end-of-life—into compliant transactions through assessment, transaction advisory, logistics orchestration, and settlement services. The company serves battery holders across more than 20 countries and specializes in matching inventory with qualified buyers while managing regulatory and shipping requirements.

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The Closed Loop Center is the innovation arm of Closed Loop Partners that works with global brands, retailers, and manufacturers to address material waste challenges through circular economy solutions. The organization conducts research, designs circular business initiatives, and collaborates with businesses to develop market-ready approaches to waste reduction and resource efficiency.

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Clothes Bin operates a national franchise system of independently owned clothing and shoe collection bins in the United States and abroad, sold as a semi-absentee business opportunity to prospective franchisees. It provides training and support to franchisees and positions the model around textile recycling and reuse.

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Clotsy Brand is a sustainable clothing retailer that designs garments in Spain and manufactures them on the Iberian Peninsula using organic, recycled, or natural materials with non-toxic dyes. The company sells clothing for women through a physical store in Valencia and online across Spain.

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A direct-to-consumer brand selling tree-free toilet paper made from bamboo, offered via one-time purchase or subscription with a customer portal and gift cards. It targets environmentally conscious consumers seeking sustainable household paper products with plastic-free, recyclable packaging.

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CLS Environmental Technologies Limited is a material manufacturer and climate technology developer that converts biomass waste such as biochar into high-value graphene materials. It targets heavy industries with applications in advanced construction, solid energy storage, and water purification.

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Charter Next Generation is a manufacturing company that produces packaging solutions focused on sustainability, circularity, and low-carbon operations. The company serves the packaging and manufacturing sectors with a manufacturing network spanning 16 sites across North America.

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