Circular Economy Startups

uppercase sells eco-friendly bags and luggage—including school backpacks, sling bags, messenger bags, laptop backpacks, and hardcase trolleys—made from recycled and sustainable materials. The brand markets directly to consumers in India across travel, work, and school use cases.

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UpSolv develops a dissolution-and-purification recycling technology that turns contaminated thermoplastics (including polystyrene, HIPS, ABS, and polyolefins like PE, PP and PC) into custom purified recycled resins for industrial customers. The company is building its first commercial plant in Quebec, Canada, intended to recycle over 10,000 tonnes of contaminated polystyrene waste.

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Luxclusif provides B2B wholesale distribution, stock acquisition, and white-label resale-as-a-service programs for pre-owned luxury fashion, serving retailers, distributors, e-commerce platforms, and brands. It operates globally with warehouses in Europe, North America, and Asia, handling inventory, logistics, and authentication of premium second-hand items.

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Up To Good produces a sparkling beverage made from coffee fruit, a byproduct of coffee production, positioning it as a natural energy source with clean ingredients. The company targets consumers seeking functional beverages without artificial additives.

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Upway operates an online marketplace for certified pre-owned electric bikes, reconditioning and reselling used e-bikes from brands like Specialized, Trek, and Stromer with a 1-year warranty. It also buys used e-bikes from consumers, retailers, and fleet owners through home pickup and trade-in services in the U.S.

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Upway is an online marketplace that buys, refurbishes, and resells used electric bikes, with each bike inspected and repaired by professional mechanics and sold with a 1-year warranty. It also offers e-bike resale, trade-in solutions for consumers and professional fleet operators, plus accessories and theft insurance, with a focus on the French and European market.

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A Japanese company focused on visualizing the value of personal assets to help individuals optimize what they own. It targets the resale/recycling market enabled by e-commerce, aiming to provide objective value information for consumer-to-business transactions.

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USA DeBusk provides cradle-to-grave hazardous and non-hazardous waste management, including waste characterization, onsite handling, DOT-compliant transportation, TSDF disposal coordination, and regulatory compliance reporting. It also performs industrial field services such as tank and vessel cleaning, sludge vacuuming, and equipment decontamination for facility operators.

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Varsapp is an online marketplace for renting consumer products such as sporting goods, camping gear, cleaning machines, and VR headsets, with delivery by cargo. It serves consumers in Turkey looking to rent items for short periods.

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Vendi runs a marketplace for buying and selling second-hand and new tech devices such as smartphones, using a verification and authentication system to secure peer-to-peer transactions. It targets consumers seeking lower prices on in-demand devices while supporting a circular economy for electronics.

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Veragrow makes agricultural biostimulants derived from vermicompost (worm castings) to improve crop growth, resilience, and soil fertility for farmers, market gardeners, and winegrowers. It also designs and installs continuous-flow vermicomposting systems that let organizations, businesses, and industrial sites process their organic biowaste on-site.

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Vinden is a Swedish moving service with a digital platform that tags each item during packing so customers can decide via an app what to move, store, sell, donate, or recycle. It handles packing, transport, assembly, move-out cleaning, storage billed by actual volume, and resale or recycling of unwanted belongings.

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V.I.P. Soap Products manufactures plant-based household and industrial cleaning solutions for both branded and private-label customers, serving domestic and export markets. The company operates its own liquid and powder packaging facility and PET/HDPE bottle blowing operation from Canada's West Coast.

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Virgo Home makes LILA, an AI-powered home composting appliance that turns food scraps into Category A organic fertilizer in 7-14 days using an aerobic composting process with internal odor filtration. It offers a full-size unit and a smaller LILA Mini for consumers.

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Viridian Renewable Technology converts food by-products into premium protein, oil, and fertilizer ingredients using black soldier fly larvae. The company manufactures these products in Australia for pet food, livestock feed, and agricultural brands.

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VLS Environmental Solutions provides waste management and environmental services, including hazardous and non-hazardous waste processing, industrial services, railcar cleaning and repair, and marine/barge services, with a focus on sustainability and resource recovery. It serves manufacturers and industrial clients across the United States and Mexico.

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Voidless develops an on-demand packaging system for warehouses that uses proprietary algorithms to produce custom-sized boxes just-in-time, eliminating the need to stock multiple standard formats. The system can automatically add personalized branding, graphics, and QR codes to each box.

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VOID Technologies is a materials science company that uses its patented VO+ technology to engineer nano- and micro-scale air pockets into plastics, producing lighter, stronger, and more recyclable packaging materials. It operates extrusion labs and a compound manufacturing facility to help companies develop high-performance, lower-footprint plastic films and packaging.

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Volta Circle is a venture capital fund investing in technology-driven companies that convert linear economic systems into circular ones, focusing on pollution prevention, closed-loop consumption, and waste valorization. It targets Seed to Series A startups in areas such as advanced recycling, novel materials, green chemicals, and recycling enablers, with a global focus on Europe, the US, and India.

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Voltrinov, a Quebec-based company founded in 2021, works in electric mobility by optimizing energy use, reconditioning batteries, and extending the life of critical resources through circular practices. It builds flexible, traceable energy modules and partners with manufacturers, repair shops, active-materials industrials, and recycling centers across Quebec and Canada.

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Vuala is a bio-robotics company that builds on-site automated food waste systems which lift, weigh, empty, and treat food waste caddies, separate out contaminants like plastics, capture waste data, and convert waste into a stable liquid used to generate renewable energy. It serves commercial and hospitality operators such as airports, hotels, staff restaurants, and science parks.

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Vyta provides IT asset disposition (ITAD) and IT asset lifecycle management (ITALM) services, handling secure data erasure, refurbishment, redeployment and disposal of retired technology for enterprise clients. The company emphasizes regulatory compliance, revenue recovery, and carbon neutral operations across global locations.

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Walki is an international manufacturer of sustainable packaging and engineered materials, developing recyclable, compostable, and durable alternatives to non-recyclable and fossil-based materials. It serves retailers and consumer brands, packaging converters, industrial and logistics sectors, construction and insulation companies, and specialty technical industries.

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Warming Surfaces manufactures patent-protected heated surface systems under the Halia brand that improve energy efficiency in living spaces while reducing carbon footprint. The company applies circular economy principles and operates as a deep tech spin-out focused on sustainable heating solutions for residential and commercial applications.

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