Top 8 Recycling startups in Belgium

Aug 13, 2024 | By Marjana Bačić

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Funding: $1.4M
Smartends Offers advanced bin sensors that monitor waste levels in real-time, providing crucial data for optimizing collection routes. This data-driven approach helps reduce operational costs, minimize carbon emissions, and improve overall efficiency in waste management.
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Funding: $1.1B
Umicore is a global materials technology and recycling group. It now recovers copper, cobalt and nickel in volumes of 7,000 metric tons per year, and it has expanded into lithium recovery as well.
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Funding: €12.5M
RISORCE fills a need in Belgium for local tyre waste processing options.
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Funding: €6.5M
Resortecs manufactures sewing threads that disintegrate at high industrial temperatures. A continuous and automated disassembly line then allows the zippers and buttons to be removed from the textile parts, polyester and cotton to be separated and then sent to specific recyclers.
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Funding: €110K
Do Eat created a bioplastic derived from potato industry residues like potato peel, wash water, and beer waste.
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Funding: $101K
PolyPerception provides real-time end-to-end waste flow monitoring to plastics and material recovery facilities. It uses cameras and Artificial Intelligence to track and characterise every single object that flows through material recovery facilities.
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Woosh provides a delivery and collection service of diapers for nurseries.
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Triple Helix is an investment firm that offers sutainable development, impact investing, chemistry, and capital investment.
Editor: Marjana Bačić
Marjana Bačić is a senior editor for RecyclingStartups. She has has more than 5 years experience covering the recycling industry. Marjana graduated from University of Belgrade, where she edited Recycling and Sustainable Development Journal. She has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability. She also participates in beach clean-up initiatives and advocates for sustainable practices in local businesses. In her free time, Marjana enjoys hiking in the scenic Montenegrin countryside, practicing yoga for mindfulness, and experimenting with plant-based recipes in her kitchen. You can contact Marjana at marjanabacic(at)recyclingstartups(dot)com