Circular Economy Startups

Wash Cycle Laundry provides commercial laundry and linen services — including hotel laundry, towel service, and wash-and-fold — for hotels, gyms, spas, salons, and short-term rental managers, with bin-by-bin tracking and daily reporting. Operating in Boston and Philadelphia, it runs a social enterprise model with water- and energy-saving processes and career pathways for people overcoming incarceration and homelessness.

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Waste Solutions Canada provides waste management and recycling services—including organics, biomedical, and hazardous waste, used cooking oil, and equipment—bundled into coordinated programs for businesses. It uses smart sensors, tech-enabled equipment, and reporting software to reduce costs and improve waste diversion for small businesses, national enterprises, and sectors like hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, and property management across Canada.

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Waste Ventures India is a waste management social enterprise that works with informal waste pickers and bulk waste generators to divert waste from landfills to environmentally sustainable endpoints. The company builds inclusive and financially viable waste management models.

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WasteVision uses technology to make waste collection smarter, treating waste streams as raw materials rather than end products. It serves municipalities, businesses, and citizens supporting the transition from waste to resources within a circular economy.

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Wastech Engineering designs, engineers and manufactures equipment to compact, crush, sort and de-package solid waste and recyclables, serving businesses and government at all levels. Based in Hallam, Victoria, it provides waste management and resource recovery systems across Australia and New Zealand.

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WasteLink operates a food waste management platform that upcycles food surplus from food producers and retailers into bakery-based animal feed ingredients. It serves the food industry and supplies feed formulations for cattle, poultry, aqua, swine, and pets to feed producers and farmers across India, while offering traceability, compliance, and analytics.

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Wastespresso collects spent coffee grounds from companies' offices and converts them into bio-composite materials used to manufacture products such as cups, mugs, and trays, offering businesses an alternative to plastic and wood. It provides monthly ISO 14064-compliant impact reports on collected coffee volume and emission reductions, serving corporate clients in Turkey.

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Wastetide provides software tools for waste management and recycling operations, helping facilities discover hidden revenue from secondary materials and streamline manual workflows. The platform targets waste management companies and industrial operations seeking to optimize resource recovery and operational efficiency.

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Scalable Systems Group (WasteWizer) develops IoT weight-sensing hardware and software that remotely measures the weight of industrial-size waste and recycling containers. Founded in 2019 and based in Atlanta, it serves the waste and recycling industry with weight data for container management.

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WasteX converts agricultural processing waste into biochar for carbon sequestration and value recovery. The company provides equipment and carbon credit solutions to farms and agricultural producers globally.

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Waterhaul recovers and recycles marine plastics — particularly discarded fishing gear ("ghost gear") — from the UK coastline into a traceable recycled polymer used to make consumer products such as sunglasses, litter-picking tools, and utility knives. It sells these recycled goods direct to consumers and partners with brands and charities on products made from its recycled material.

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Wazi designs and manufactures eyewear crafted by African artisans using sustainable materials and CNC machining. It sells glasses directly to consumers and offers B2B services including white-label, co-branded, and bespoke eyewear collections for brands.

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World Data Products buys, sells, and refurbishes servers, networking equipment, storage, and tape media, and provides R2v3-certified IT Asset Disposition (ITAD), repair, third-party maintenance, and data center relocation services. It serves data center operators and IT teams working with hardware from vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HPE, and IBM.

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Cauli operates a reusable food packaging system (CauliRS) that lets customers borrow and return food and drink containers, replacing single-use disposables for foodservice and catering businesses. It includes an ESG dashboard for tracking waste reduction and emissions data for CSR reporting, and operates as the largest reuse system for foodservice in the UK.

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ClickEat makes certified home-compostable alternatives to single-use plastic items such as cutlery, plates, cups, containers, and straws, made from materials like birchwood, bamboo fiber, molded corn husk, and paper. It sells to conscious consumers and businesses across Chile, the USA, and Canada.

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Wecook is a shared kitchen platform in Greece that lets chefs cook their own specialties independently and delivers those meals to customers' doors. It emphasizes sustainability through reusable packaging and a daily-changing menu, connecting chef-creators directly with consumers.

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We Dress Fair is a French online retailer selling ethical and eco-responsible clothing, verifying brands through working-condition standards, environmental impact of production, and collection of supporting documents. It offers interest-free installment payment options to consumers.

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Weeefiner develops industrial water treatment technology, including its 4D Scavenger product, that recovers dissolved raw materials such as metals from liquid waste while purifying water. It targets industrial customers seeking to reuse valuable elements, reduce metal discharge, and lower treatment costs.

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Wheyward Spirit produces specialty distilled spirits, including its flagship Wheyward Spirit and barrel-finished Wheyskey, made from upcycled ingredients and free of grain, gluten, lactose, and additives. The woman-owned brand sells its 80-proof spirits directly to consumers for use in cocktails.

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White Birch Paper manufactures newsprint, high-bright, directory, paperboard, 100% recycled kraft paper, and other specialty paper and paperboard products. It operates four paper mills in Canada and the United States, serving customers across North America and internationally.

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WILDPLASTIC collects "wild" plastic waste from regions without formalized waste management, recycles it into granulate, and uses that material to make consumer products such as trash bags. The company documents its environmental impact through CO2 savings and improved working conditions for local collectors.

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WISEFOOD develops and supplies sustainable, climate-friendly packaging products — both single-use and reusable — as alternatives to plastic. It serves gastronomy, events, retail, and wholesale customers, positioning itself as a materials specialist and product developer.

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Waste Management provides waste collection, recycling, and disposal services for residential and commercial customers. The company operates waste management infrastructure and environmental services across multiple regions.

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Wonderfil operates Smart Refill Stations that dispense liquid and cream products such as soap, shampoo, conditioner, and laundry detergent with real-time measurement and no weighing required. It serves retailers and institutions like grocery stores and university campuses, offering a zero-waste, refill-based alternative to single-use packaging.

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