50 Best Waste Management Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent waste management companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 4,918 companies tracked on Fsome.

4,918
Total Companies
$73.3B
Total Funding
$14.9M
Avg Funding
London
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Phoenix Tailings
Phoenix Tailings is a rare earth metals production company that transforms minin…
Woburn 101 - 250 $144.4M Series B 2026-02-19
2
Deep Isolation
Deep Isolation develops and commercializes technology to safely dispose of nucle…
Berkeley 11 - 50 $55.6M Grant 2026-01-13
3
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
4
Divert
Divert provides sustainable infrastructure solutions that eliminates waste from …
Concord 101 - 250 $102.7M Series Unknown 2026-01-20
5
SuperCircle
SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers ci…
New York 1 - 10 $31.0M Series A 2025-12-10
6
PureCycle Technologies
PureCycle Technologies offers the only recycled polypropylene with properties eq…
Jacksonville 101 - 250 $1.2B Grant 2026-03-24
7
Allonnia
Allonnia is an environmental biotechnology company focused on metals and mining,…
Boston 11 - 50 $110.0M Series A 2025-12-10
8
Pennsylvania American Water
Pennsylvania American Water provides high-quality and reliable water and wastewa…
Mechanicsburg 1K - 5K $171.6M Grant 2026-04-16
9
Ridwell
Ridwellt is engaged in reusing and recycling used stuff.
Portland 101 - 250 $15.0M Series Unknown 2025-12-10
10
Mobius Materials
Mobius Materials develops and supplies silicon-based materials to improve effici…
Richmond 1 - 10 $3.8M Seed 2025-12-12
11
AMP
AMP utilizes AI-powered sortation to enhance recycling efficiency and reduce cos…
Louisville 101 - 250 $266.1M Series D 2024-12-05
12
Vaulted Deep
Vaulted Deep provides proven technology solutions for permanent carbon removal t…
Houston 11 - 50 $40.3M Series A 2025-12-19
13
SolmeteX
SolmeteX is a supplier of dental products for water treatment and waste manageme…
Northborough 51 - 100 $200.0M Private Equity 2025-10-15
14
Glacier
Glacier develops AI-powered robotic systems to automate the sorting of recyclabl…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $20.5M Series A 2025-04-28
15
Greyparrot
Greyparrot is using AI waste analytics to unlock a new understanding of discarde…
London 11 - 50 $30.8M Corporate Round 2024-02-07
16
CO280
CO280 develops carbon-negative solutions in order to assist businesses in reduci…
Vancouver 11 - 50 $30.3M Grant 2024-07-22
17
Dimension
Dimension brings the waste management industry into the modern world.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $12.5M Seed 2022-05-31
18
Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go develops an app for fighting food waste and saving delicious food…
London 1K - 5K $45.7M Series Unknown 2022-07-01
19
NPHarvest
NPHarvest is a company with expertise in organic waste management, wastewater tr…
Espoo 1 - 10 $3.7M Grant 2026-01-20
20
Novoloop
Novoloop is an upcycling company that provides a proprietary lifecycling platfor…
Menlo Park 11 - 50 $46.9M Series B 2025-06-25
21
Waste Eliminator
Waste Eliminator is a full service waste management company that offers critical…
Gainesville 51 - 100 $150.0M Private Equity 2022-06-14
22
Strella Biotechnology
Strella Biotechnology offers a biosensing platform that predicts the ripeness of…
Philadelphia 11 - 50 $17.4M Debt Financing 2024-09-10
23
Thames Water
Thames Water is a water and wastewater company that manages water supply, treatm…
Reading 5K - 10K $2.9B Debt Financing 2024-11-13
24
Tadweeer
Tadweeer specialized in producing metals from the recycling of electrical device…
Riyadh 251 - 500 $69.3M Post Ipo Debt 2026-01-15
25
Mycocycle
Mycocycle is a waster management firm transforming waste with mycelium technolog…
Bolingbrook 11 - 50 $9.5M Seed 2025-08-27
26
Windfall Bio
Naturally transforming waste methane into organic fertilizer using the power of …
San Mateo 11 - 50 $37.0M Series A 2024-04-08
27
FloVision Solutions
FloVision Solutions is a food analytic platform that optimizes supplier comparat…
South Bend 1 - 10 $10.1M Series A 2025-07-30
28
GFL Environmental
GFL Environmental is a multi-faceted company that offers services in solid waste…
Sterling Heights c 10001 max $5.2B Post Ipo Debt 2026-01-13
29
ZeroCircle
ZeroCircle provides carbon neutral solutions for ambitious brands.
Mumbai 11 - 50 $3.0M Seed 2026-01-22
30
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
31
Thorizon
Thorizon develops and deploys cutting-edge technology for molten salt reactors.
Amsterdam 11 - 50 $45.2M Grant 2025-03-12
32
Beam Circular
BEAM Circular transforms agri-waste into opportunities, scaling bioindustrial in…
Modesto 1 - 10 $10.4M Grant 2025-08-29
33
demi
demi is the future of urban composting, with the first autonomous collection sys…
Chicago 1 - 10 $800K Pre Seed 2023-04-19
34
Re-Nuble
Re-Nuble is a climate tech company that converts unrecoverable vegetative byprod…
New York 1 - 10 $9.0M Seed 2023-05-31
35
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
36
CurbWaste
CurbWaste is an operating system designed for independent waste haulers, providi…
New York 51 - 100 $49.1M Series B 2025-10-22
37
Gradiant
Gradiant is a solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for a…
Woburn 1K - 5K $442.4M Debt Financing 2025-10-16
38
ZwitterCo
ZwitterCo provides membrane solutions for the treatment of highly-impaired waste…
Woburn 51 - 100 $98.8M Series B 2024-07-09
39
CommanderAI
CommanderAI is the sales intelligence platform built for waste haulers, ensuring…
Marina Del Rey 11 - 50 $7.7M Seed 2025-09-30
40
Amermin
Amermin is a recycling company that specializes in refining and selling of strat…
Austin 11 - 50 $11.5M Grant 2026-01-05
41
Woodchuck.AI
Woodchuck.AI creates a sustainable cycle from construction and manufacturing sit…
Grand Rapids 11 - 50 $3.8M Seed 2025-12-16
42
Epic Cleantec
Epic Cleantec is a full-service water technology company providing turnkey waste…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $25.4M Series B 2024-11-21
43
Xatoms
Xatoms develops novel photocatalysts to create efficient and sustainable water t…
Toronto 11 - 50 $2.5M Pre Seed 2025-06-19
44
EVERBLOOM
Bloomlabs provides a method to catalyze waste value by regenerating it as adapta…
New York 1 - 10 $7.8M Seed 2025-08-19
45
Hyfé
Hyfé turns food waste into chemicals that maximize profits for food processors w…
Chicago 1 - 10 $11.0M Seed 2023-06-22
46
Without Waste
Without® recycles flexible plastics and mixed textiles into premium materials, c…
Lewes 11 - 50 $1.8M Pre Seed 2024-12-04
47
PolyCycl
PolyCycl converts non-recyclable, low-grade mixed waste plastics to petroleum fu…
Haryana 11 - 50 $2.9M Series A 2026-01-20
48
Rubicon
Rubicon is a software platform that provides waste management, recycling, and sm…
Lexington 251 - 500 $501.7M Post Ipo Equity 2024-12-03
49
Organica Water
Organica Water develops solutions for treating and recycling wastewater.
Princeton 101 - 250 $47.7M Private Equity 2026-01-14
50
LabCycle
LabCycle is a recycling company that recycles hazardous plastic waste from labor…
Bath 1 - 10 $1.8M Seed 2026-01-19