50 Best Recycling Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent recycling companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 2,771 companies tracked on Fsome.

2,771
Total Companies
$63.3B
Total Funding
$22.9M
Avg Funding
London
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Noveon Magnetics
Noveon Magnetics manufactures EcoFlux rare earth permanent magnets that support …
San Marcos $343.8M Series C 2026-01-19
2
LanzaTech
LanzaTech is a carbon recycling company that converts waste carbon into sustaina…
Skokie 251 - 500 $1.3B Post Ipo Equity 2026-01-22
3
ReElement Technologies
ReElement Technologies develops a modular refining platform to purify and recove…
Fishers 11 - 50 $302.0M Corporate Round 2026-03-31
4
Mill
Mill offers a kitchen bin that dries, shrinks, and de-stinks leftover food, elim…
San Bruno 101 - 250 $70.4M Series Unknown 2025-12-16
5
Divert
Divert provides sustainable infrastructure solutions that eliminates waste from …
Concord 101 - 250 $102.7M Series Unknown 2026-01-20
6
PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies offers the only recycled polypropylene with properties eq…
Jacksonville 101 - 250 $1.2B Grant 2026-03-24
7
Descycle
Descycle is a startup that recycles e-waste and recovers metals.
London 11 - 50 $27.8M Grant 2026-02-17
8
Refiberd
Refiberd uses AI and hyperspectral imaging systems to enable intelligent sorting…
Cupertino 1 - 10 $4.7M Seed 2025-06-03
9
ePac Flexible Packaging
ePac Flexible Packaging is based on the premise that emerging digital technology…
Austin 251 - 500 $45.0M Corporate Round 2022-09-14
10
Cylib
Cylib specializes in holistic battery recycling, transforming end-of-life batter…
Aachen 101 - 250 $177.2M Grant 2025-12-22
11
Princeton NuEnergy
Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on direct recycling technolog…
Bordentown 11 - 50 $82.1M Grant 2025-08-04
12
Cyclic Materials
Cyclic Materials recycles rare earth elements from magnet-containing products fo…
Kingston 11 - 50 $161.2M Series C 2026-01-23
13
AMP
AMP utilizes AI-powered sortation to enhance recycling efficiency and reduce cos…
Louisville 101 - 250 $266.1M Series D 2024-12-05
14
Aris Water Solutions
Aris Water Solutions develops and operates produced water infrastructure and rec…
Houston 251 - 500 $500.0M Post Ipo Debt 2025-03-11
15
Glacier
Glacier develops AI-powered robotic systems to automate the sorting of recyclabl…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $20.5M Series A 2025-04-28
16
Greyparrot
Greyparrot is using AI waste analytics to unlock a new understanding of discarde…
London 11 - 50 $30.8M Corporate Round 2024-02-07
17
Novoloop
Novoloop is an upcycling company that provides a proprietary lifecycling platfor…
Menlo Park 11 - 50 $46.9M Series B 2025-06-25
18
Waste Eliminator
Waste Eliminator is a full service waste management company that offers critical…
Gainesville 51 - 100 $150.0M Private Equity 2022-06-14
19
Nth Cycle
Nth Cycle is a metal processing technology company working with battery recycler…
Beverly 11 - 50 $64.1M Series B 2023-12-04
20
ULUU
ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
Perth 11 - 50 $16.9M Grant 2025-12-17
21
Tadweeer
Tadweeer specialized in producing metals from the recycling of electrical device…
Riyadh 251 - 500 $69.3M Post Ipo Debt 2026-01-15
22
Mycocycle
Mycocycle is a waster management firm transforming waste with mycelium technolog…
Bolingbrook 11 - 50 $9.5M Seed 2025-08-27
23
Closed Loop Partners
Closed Loop Partners invests in sustainable consumer goods, advanced recycling t…
New City 11 - 50 Series Unknown 2025-02-10
24
Rheaply
Rheaply provides a platform that enables organizations to exchange materials and…
Chicago 51 - 100 $32.8M Series Unknown 2022-06-07
25
ZeroCircle
ZeroCircle provides carbon neutral solutions for ambitious brands.
Mumbai 11 - 50 $3.0M Seed 2026-01-22
26
Spoiler Alert
Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands m…
Boston 11 - 50 $16.2M Series A 2021-12-01
27
Vartega
Vartega manufactures low-cost recycled carbon fiber sourced from various dry fib…
Golden 11 - 50 $24.6M Debt Financing 2026-01-06
28
demi
demi is the future of urban composting, with the first autonomous collection sys…
Chicago 1 - 10 $800K Pre Seed 2023-04-19
29
Circular Services
Circular Services operates as a developer of circular economy and recycling infr…
New York 501 - 1K $230.0M Debt Financing 2025-12-16
30
Gongye Technology
Gongye Technology makes use of AI and big data to manufacture intelligent equipm…
Dongguang 51 - 100 $44.3M Series C 2026-01-16
31
ALT5 Sigma
ALT5 Sigma is a pharmaceutical company focused on finding treatments for conditi…
Minneapolis 1 - 10 $1.5B Post Ipo Equity 2025-08-11
32
ZwitterCo
ZwitterCo provides membrane solutions for the treatment of highly-impaired waste…
Woburn 51 - 100 $98.8M Series B 2024-07-09
33
Amermin
Amermin is a recycling company that specializes in refining and selling of strat…
Austin 11 - 50 $11.5M Grant 2026-01-05
34
Topanga.io
Topanga.io develops a reuse platform for sustainably-minded brands, restaurants,…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $12.9M Series A 2025-03-25
35
Fortera
Fortera is a materials technology company that produces zero CO2 cement for the …
San Jose 101 - 250 $175.5M Series Unknown 2025-09-23
36
HyProMag
HyProMag aim is to develop a full recycling supply chain for rare earth magnets …
Pforzheim 11 - 50 $3.3M Convertible Note 2023-02-13
37
Without Waste
Without® recycles flexible plastics and mixed textiles into premium materials, c…
Lewes 11 - 50 $1.8M Pre Seed 2024-12-04
38
Rubicon
Rubicon is a software platform that provides waste management, recycling, and sm…
Lexington 251 - 500 $501.7M Post Ipo Equity 2024-12-03
39
Organica Water
Organica Water develops solutions for treating and recycling wastewater.
Princeton 101 - 250 $47.7M Private Equity 2026-01-14
40
Sortile
Sortile is a textile waste management system that enables the identification, tr…
New York 1 - 10 $1.2M Grant 2024-09-13
41
Afterwind
Afterwind recycles glass and carbon fiber assets into reusable materials for the…
M├╢lndal 11 - 50 $1.5M Seed 2025-04-01
42
LabCycle
LabCycle is a recycling company that recycles hazardous plastic waste from labor…
Bath 1 - 10 $1.8M Seed 2026-01-19
43
Alta Resource Technologies
Alta Resource Technologies provides innovative solutions for efficient mineral s…
Boulder 11 - 50 $15.2M Seed 2025-05-05
44
Infiniti Recycling
Infiniti Recycling is pioneering the future of lithium-ion battery recycling thr…
Cambridge 1 - 10 $1.0M Pre Seed 2026-03-31
45
DePoly
DePoly is a PET-to-raw-material recycling company that converts dirty, post-cons…
Sion 11 - 50 $41.1M Grant 2026-02-25
46
Vytal
Vytal is a provider of software-enabled reusable packaging solutions to eliminat…
Cologne 51 - 100 $34.6M Series Unknown 2025-03-11
47
OnePlanet Solar Recycling
Recycler focused on solar-PV systems.
Jacksonville 1 - 10 $21.5M Seed 2025-04-22
48
Evrnu
Evrnu is a textile innovations company producing engineered fiber made from disc…
Seattle 1 - 10 $25.7M Series B 2021-11-01
49
Replenysh
Replenysh builds the operating system of material recovery.
Orange 11 - 50 $10.0M Series A 2025-04-29
50
Repla
Repla is a plastic recycling firm that produces a rural plastic waste decomposit…
Gyeongsan 11 - 50 $8.2M Series A 2024-07-31