Best Solid Waste Management Tech Companies in Netherlands
The 74 best Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BioBTX.
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Ranked: Best Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BioBTX Provider of non-food biomass and plastic waste services | $45M | 24 mo ago | 10 | 2012 | Cor Kamminga Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | 29 patents Converting waste plastics and biomass into BTX aromatics via catalytic pyrolysis. | — |
| 2 | Black Bear Carbon Provider of technology solution for conversion of waste tyres to carbon black | $28M | 61 mo ago | 17 | 2010 | Silvio Ghyoot CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 46 patents Recycled carbon black composites and metal-alloy rotary kilns for tire waste processing | — |
| 3 | Seenons Platform connecting organizations with waste management and recycling service providers | $18M | 11 mo ago | 80 | 2019 | Joost Kamermans Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | — | 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
| 4 | Ioniqa Developer of technology that upcycles all types and colors of PET | $15M | 28 mo ago | 48 | 2009 | — | — | 7 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
| 5 | Healix Provider of solutions to convert plastic waste into the circular polymer | $12M | 33 mo ago | 9 | 2020 | Marcel Alberts Founder | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+20 | 2 patents Separating organic fibers from thermoplastic fibers for recycling/composite material processing | 1 award |
| 6 | C2CA Technology Developer of concrete upcycling process transforming waste into cement substitutes | $11M | 19 mo ago | 8 | 2016 | Thomas Petithuguenin CEO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+9 | — | — |
| 7 | Pryme Provider of solutions to convert plastic waste into valuable products | $11M | 26 mo ago | 18 | 2008 | — | Craft CMSPHPYii+13 | — | — |
| 8 | Excess Materials Exchange Provider of marketplace for company waste | $5M | 18 mo ago | — | 2017 | Christian Maaren Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 9 | Fuenix Producer of raw materials from waste plastics | $5M | 40 mo ago | — | 2013 | Sirt Mellema CEO | — | — | — |
| 10 | Hydryx Developer of automated landfill gas management systems for green energy production | $3M | 8 mo ago | — | 2023 | Joren Tangelder Co-Founder | WebflowjQueryHSTS+6 | — | 1 expansion |
| 11 | Pectcof Coffee pulp-waste mitigation and supply of products made from the process | $2M | 53 mo ago | 8 | 2011 | Rudi Dieleman Director and Co-Founder at PectCof B.V. | — | 10 patents Valoriza resíduos de café ao produzir pectina funcionalizada com polifenóis. | — |
| 12 | Foamplant Provider of biodegradable foam solutions | $2M | 82 mo ago | 27 | 2018 | Martin Tietema CEO | — | 15 patents Foam-based horticultural substrates and circular cushion foams for mattresses and cushions | — |
| 13 | TorrCoal Provider of technology to produce bio-carbon from wood and agro residuals | $1M | 81 mo ago | 13 | 2005 | Randolph Hagenbeek Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 14 | Orbisk Provider of AI-based food waste monitoring system | $1M | 18 mo ago | 37 | 2019 | Bart Arnhem Co-Founder & CTO | WordPress Block EditorDiviWordPress+38 | — | — |
| 15 | ReSolved Technologies Solvent-based plastic waste recycling | $1M | 33 mo ago | — | 2020 | Norbert Fraunholcz Founder & CEO | WordPressPleskMySQL+21 | — | 4 job openings |
| 16 | CuRe Manufacturer of polyester products | $643K | 37 mo ago | 16 | 2018 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 17 | Alucha Technology solution to obtain oil, gas and recycled content from laminate plastics | $413K | 36 mo ago | 7 | 2004 | Gijs Jansen Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 18 | Blue Plastics Producer of recycled plastic granulates from used plastic films | $364K | 67 mo ago | 5 | 2017 | Tatiana Novoseltseva Founder | — | 8 patents Continuous polyolefin recycling via particle injection into melt processing | — |
| 19 | DOPS Recycling Technologies Provider of the solution to convert waste into raw materials | $298K | 14 mo ago | 5 | 2021 | Michiel Spits Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 20 | The Good Plastic Company Tech enabled services for Plastic recycling | $100K | 12 mo ago | 24 | 2019 | Grisha Zotov Co-Founder & Managing Director | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+18 | — | — |
Top 12 Solid Waste Management Tech companies in Netherlands
#1
Series C · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019 · 80 employees$17.9Mraised▾
Platform connecting organizations with waste management and recycling service providers. It facilitates connections between entities generating waste and those who reuse it, supporting the transition to a circular economy. The platform offers access to a network of partners in the waste chain. It empowers organizations to reduce waste across various waste streams.
- Jul 2025Series C—
- Apr 2023Series B$10.9M
- Oct 2021Series A$6.9M
#2
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2023$3.4Mraised▾
Developer of automated landfill gas management systems for green energy production. It reduces methane emissions and increases renewable energy generation from landfills. It builds landfill gas management systems to capture methane and turn it into usable energy. It measures, visualizes, and auto-regulates landfill gas to boost green energy revenue and cut emissions. The system minimizes methane leaks, increases extraction rates, and improves energy generation efficiency.
- Oct 2025Seed$3.4M
#3
Series A · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2016 · 8 employees$10.9Mraised▾
Developer of concrete upcycling process transforming waste into cement substitutes. The process transforms waste concrete into substitutes for cement, aggregates, and sand. It uses crushing, separation, and activation techniques. The process aims to reduce carbon emissions and promote circular construction solutions.
- Nov 2024Series A$10.6M
- Mar 2023Seed—
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$321.1K
#4
Series A · Groningen, Groningen · founded 2012 · 10 employees$45Mraised▾
Provider of non-food biomass and plastic waste services. It produces BTX from biomass and plastics. It converts end-of-life waste plastics and biomass into circular and sustainable chemical building blocks.
- Jun 2024Series A$45M
- Jun 2024Venture Debt$20.3M
- Jun 2024Grant (prize money)$15.1M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$623.4K
#5
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2017$5Mraised▾
Excess Materials Exchange is a digital marketplace where companies can exchange excess materials with each other. It provides a digital matching platform to find new high-value reuse options for materials or (waste) products for companies.
- Dec 2024Series A$5M
#6
Series A · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2019 · 37 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based food waste monitoring system. It is a plug-and-play installation of the food waste monitor in the kitchen. The monitor system has a camera with AI image recognition, that recognizes the products being thrown away and gains insight into the food waste via an online report.
- Dec 2024Series A$8.4M
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$193.1K
- Mar 2022Grant (prize money)$2.7M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$2.8M
#7
Series B · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2009 · 48 employees$15.3Mraised▾
Developer of technology that upcycles all types and colors of PET. The technology depolymerizes plastic polymers using a solution to dissolve the molecular structure. The resulting raw material is identical to plastics produced from oil. The material is suitable for creating new, clear, food-safe PET bottles.
- Jan 2024Series B—
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$716.4K
- May 2021Series A$12.1M
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$13.7M
#8
Public · Rotterdam, South Holland · founded 2008 · 18 employees$10.6Mraised▾
Provider of solutions to convert plastic waste into valuable products. It provides circular solutions to convert waste plastics into a feedstock that is further processing by petrochemical companies to produce new plastic.
- Apr 2024Post IPO$10.6M
- May 2023Post IPO—
- Mar 2023Post IPO—
#9
Seed · Beverwijk, North Holland · founded 2021 · 5 employees$297.5Kraised▾
Provider of the solution to convert waste into raw materials. It offers direct carbon immobilization technology with DOPS recycling technologies to convert solid waste into raw materials
- Mar 2025Seed$5.4M
- Oct 2022Convertible Debt$297.5K
#10
Seed · Netherlands · founded 2019 · 24 employees$100Kraised▾
Tech enabled services for Plastic recycling
- Jun 2025Seed$100K
#11
Seed · Maastricht, Limburg · founded 2020 · 9 employees$11.8Mraised▾
Provider of solutions to convert plastic waste into the circular polymer. It provides circular polymers derived from plastic fibre waste, collected in marine and agricultural environments.
- Sep 2023Seed—
- Sep 2021Seed$11.8M
#12
Series B · Nederweert, Limburg · founded 2010 · 17 employees$27.6Mraised▾
Provider of technology solution for conversion of waste tyres to carbon black. The company has developed a process to turn used tires into carbon black which is used as an additive in rubber, plastics, inks, and paints.
- May 2021Series B$9.1M
- Nov 2018Series A$5.7M
- Sep 2018Series A$12.8M
- Dec 2017Series A—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Solid Waste Management Tech coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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How research on Circular Economy is moving in the Netherlands
A read on the academic research around Circular Economy — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,094 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Delft University of Technology311
- Wageningen University & Research122
- Utrecht University103
- Maastricht University88
- University of Twente85
- Sustainability1→17
- Reuse1→11
- Resource (disambiguation)2→11
- Context (archaeology)1→8
- Product (mathematics)1→5
- Sustainability7→80
- Resource (disambiguation)3→36
- Product (mathematics)4→33
- Life-cycle assessment5→31
- Reuse2→28
- Sustainability14→112
- Context (archaeology)5→45
- Ecology1→38
- Resource (disambiguation)8→43
- Reuse5→38
Where circular economy is researched across Netherlands
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.