Circular Economy Startups
1,781 companies tagged Circular Economy, with their investors and founders.
PSUDO was a footwear brand focused on locally sourced and sustainably produced sneakers sold to consumers. The company has announced its closure.
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PurFi uses a patented reverse-spinning process to rejuvenate post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste back to virgin-quality fiber that retains its original length and strength and can be reused up to 17 times. It serves textile and manufacturing customers with circular fiber production and fiber-lineage traceability software, operating an industrial-scale line in Belgium.
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Pyronexus builds pyrolysis reactor systems that convert waste biomass into biochar, and provides end-to-end project services including engineering, deployment, operations, R&D consulting, and a marketplace (BiocharXchange) for buying and selling biochar. It serves clients across the biochar value chain in the clean energy and carbon removal industry, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.
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R3 Lithium operates a commercial-scale lithium carbonate recovery facility in Covington, Georgia, using a proprietary extraction process to recover and refine lithium from black mass back into the battery supply chain. It serves the domestic battery minerals market, supporting energy storage systems, defense applications, and electric vehicles in North America.
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Re Mixers designs and manufactures static mixers for dispensing adhesives, using its patented Xemex technology to reduce adhesive waste and enable shorter nozzles. It serves adhesive manufacturers, distributors, and formulators, with products engineered and made in the United States from domestic materials.
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Recleim is an appliance recycling company that uses a closed-loop resource recovery process to recover commodity materials such as steel, aluminum, copper, plastic and foam from residential and commercial appliances, and captures refrigerants and ozone-depleting substances. It handles transportation of appliances from homes and retailers to processing plants and sells recovered byproducts to downstream recyclers and commodity buyers.
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ReElement Technologies operates a modular chromatography-based refining platform that purifies and separates rare earth elements and battery metals (such as lithium carbonate, hydroxide, and rare earth oxides) from mineral ores, brines, spodumene, recycled magnets, and lithium-battery black mass. It also offers a "Powered by ReElement" service to recover target elements from manufacturing waste streams for critical mineral supply chains.
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Upcycled Foods, Inc. (ReGrained) supplies upcycled food ingredients derived from byproducts like brewers' spent grain and offers innovation services that help food, beverage, and agriculture companies turn waste streams into new products and revenue. It serves CPG brands, ingredient suppliers, agricultural processors, retailers, and foodservice operators across the food system.
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Renegade Plastics develops low-carbon coated fabrics as an alternative to PVC-coated industrial textiles, made without PVC, phthalates, PFAS, or VOCs while remaining UV, chemical, and weather resistant. The fabrics serve industrial, sports, and agriculture applications and work within existing fabrication systems.
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Renu develops a modular molecular recycling technology (RVRS.X) that breaks down mixed plastic waste into its molecular building blocks to produce Circulon, a circular material used to make virgin-quality plastic resins. The system targets plastic circularity through on-site, decentralized processing for waste and plastics producers.
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Revino operates a reusable glass bottle system for beverage producers, providing standardized reusable bottles, bottle washing services, educational resources, and consulting on reusable packaging. It serves wineries and beverage producers, initially focused on the Pacific Northwest and US West Coast.
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RenX Enterprises Corp. is a multi-division holding company operating across biomass processing, recycling, and real estate. Its subsidiaries include Resource Group US, a green waste processing facility in Myakka City, Florida that converts organic and woody waste into reusable materials, and Zimmer Equipment Inc., a Tampa-based hauler of municipal solid waste, land-clearing debris, and bulk materials serving contractors and municipalities across Florida.
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Santana Equestrian Private Financial is a publicly traded regenerative agriculture and environmental services company that restores degraded land using localized biomass recycling and soil regeneration. It runs closed-loop systems converting equestrian, yard, and organic waste into soil amendments, and offers soil banking and environmental services aimed at strengthening water and food system resilience.
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Soleil Toujours makes SPF-powered skincare and sun care products designed with sustainable, plastic-reduced packaging and reef-safe, vegan formulations. It is a consumer beauty brand focused on skincare that combines skin protection with environmental sustainability.
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Suay operates a textile recycling, reuse, and repair business, including overdyeing services for garments and other textiles. It positions itself around skilled labor and a transparent model for extending the life of textiles.
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Sustainable Composites upcycles leather waste scrap into a finished material usable like new leather, offering products made from traceable-source scrap as well as programs to process cutting-room scrap and post-consumer returns for manufacturers. It operates in the sustainable materials and circular economy space.
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SwatchBook is a digital asset management platform and marketplace for physical materials, letting brands and suppliers organize, categorize, share, inspect, and select digital material samples with online and offline access. It targets creative, design, sourcing, and production teams and uses machine learning and trend data to reduce waste in the sourcing process.
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TriHaz Solutions provides medical, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste disposal services, including sharps pickup, mail-back sharps kits, and OSHA/DOT/HIPAA compliance training. It serves healthcare providers such as clinics, dental offices, surgery centers, and laboratories across Alabama, Tennessee, and the wider Southeast US.
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Trilogy MedWaste provides regulated medical waste management, including sharps disposal, compliance training, and document destruction, helping customers stay compliant with local, state, and federal regulations. It serves healthcare organizations, government agencies, and high-volume waste generators across the United States through local teams backed by a national network.
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Uhuru Design is a Brooklyn-based furniture design firm that creates bespoke residential and high-end commercial furniture, using reclaimed and found materials with a focus on sustainability. Founded in 2004, it serves mission-driven clients across residential, hospitality, fast casual, office, co-working, architecture, and interior design markets.
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USEFULL provides a plastic-free reusable takeout container program combining tracking technology, container inventory, and launch support for college campuses across North America. It serves institutions seeking to replace single-use plastic takeout with a reuse system.
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VelociGro produces compostable growing media and horticultural products certified for composability, serving growers and nurseries in the agricultural sector.
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Viable Gear develops seaweed-based bioplastics and makes SeaTwine, a compostable and marine-degradable twine intended to replace nylon and poly twine. Its products target farmers in agriculture and aquaculture as an alternative to petroleum-based plastics.
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Viking Pure Solutions makes on-site systems that generate electrolyzed-water cleaning and disinfecting products (using water, salt, and electricity to produce hypochlorous acid) as a non-toxic alternative to conventional chemicals. It serves senior living communities, healthcare facilities, schools, and commercial facilities.
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