Bricolage Dynamics Inc

What Bricolage Dynamics Inc does

Bricolage Dynamics Inc, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Liberty, South Carolina, operates a closed-loop glass recycling and sand manufacturing business in the Greenville-Spartanburg corridor. The company's core product is a glass-to-sand processing platform that uses crushing and sifting machinery to convert household and commercial glass waste into graded sustainable sand for local construction, landscaping, and industrial uses. As of the latest disclosed impact metrics, the company has diverted roughly 60,000 bottles (approximately 150 tons of glass) from landfill, producing the equivalent of about 30 tons of sand. Operations are founder-led (Zeb Parsons, President), small-scale (1-10 employees), and bootstrapped with no disclosed institutional control investor; cumulative equity and grant funding totals approximately $320,500 across four rounds from Fledge, Vicinity, and the South Carolina Research Authority.

The company's go-to-market is community-led and bifurcated. On the demand side, residential households subscribe to bi-weekly or monthly glass pickup services priced at $17-$20 per month (with discounted 6-month and annual billing tiers, plus an additional-bin add-on), while commercial customers — predominantly restaurants, bars, breweries, and venues in the Greenville area — contract for weekly or bi-weekly pickup using 32- or 64-gallon bins. Reported participant recycling rates of 97% for residential and 90% for commercial subscribers materially exceed national averages. On the supply side, collected glass is processed into a sand product line — recreational/play sand at $70 per 1,000 lbs, construction sand aggregate and glass rock at $35 per 2,000 lbs, and glass blasting media priced on inquiry — sold directly to contractors, businesses, and households with delivery options. Distribution channels are direct pickup and direct delivery, with no third-party intermediaries, digital marketplace presence, or app-based ordering.

The business model mixes recurring subscription revenue (residential and commercial pickup) with transactional product sales (sand), and is supported by an expression-of-interest pipeline for household expansion into new neighborhoods. Marketing is conducted almost entirely through the company website and direct community outreach; no paid acquisition channels, partnerships, patents, certifications, or formal awards are disclosed. The company has extended service to Spartanburg at $24 per six-month billing, indicating active but geographically constrained expansion within South Carolina.

Name

Bricolage Dynamics Inc

Legal name

Bricolage Dynamics

Website

https://bricdynamics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bricolage Dynamics is a South Carolina glass-recycling company that collects household and commercial glass in the Greenville-Spartanburg area and processes it into sustainable sand products sold to local contractors, businesses, and households. The firm operates subscription-based pickup services alongside a downstream manufactured sand product line.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Glass Recycling Services

akta.pro industry

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Roll-Off / Containerized MSW Collection (Commercial & Industrial)

Energy, Utilities & Environment/Environmental Services (Waste Management, Recycling & Remediation)/Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Collection & Hauling

Keywords

• Glass recycling services
• Recycled sand products
• Household glass pickup
• Commercial waste collection
• Sustainable construction materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Liberty

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Residential Glass Pickup Subscription: Monthly subscription service for household glass collection with bi-weekly pickup. Provides recurring revenue with tiered pricing options including monthly, 6-month, and annual billing cycles.
2. Commercial Glass Pickup Service: Weekly or bi-weekly pickup services for commercial businesses including restaurants, bars, clubs, businesses, churches, theaters, and townhomes. Provides 32 or 64 gallon bins for glass separation.
3. Sand Product Sales: Sale of recycled sand products including recreational/play sand, glass blasting media, construction sand aggregate, and glass rock. Sold in bulk quantities with minimum 1,000 lbs orders. Delivery fees apply with free delivery for residential customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Bricolage Dynamics operates scheduled household and commercial glass collection services across Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina, using its own crushing and sifting machinery to convert collected glass into sustainable sand products. Revenue comes from recurring pickup subscriptions for residential and commercial customers and from sale of the resulting sand (recreational/play sand, construction aggregate, glass blasting media, glass rock) to contractors, businesses, and households with local delivery.

Product overview

Bricolage Dynamics operates a glass recycling platform consisting of residential and commercial pickup services, alongside a manufactured sand product line. The Household Glass Collection Service (offered in Bi-Weekly and Once Monthly variants) and Additional Recycling Bin add-on serve residential customers in Greenville and Spartanburg. The Commercial Glass Pickup Service targets restaurants, bars, and businesses with larger bin options. All collected glass is processed into Sand Products—including Recreational/Play Sand, Glass Blasting Media, Construction Sand Aggregate, and Glass Rock—which are sold to contractors, businesses, and households for uses including substrate, play sand, sand blasting, gardening, French drains, and soil amendment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Household Glass Collection Subscription (Bi-Weekly Pickup) Recurring residential subscription that picks up household glass waste every two weeks in Greenville, SC, providing a 12-gallon bin and converting collected glass into sustainable sand.
• Household Glass Collection Subscription (Once-a-Month Pickup) Lower-frequency residential subscription that picks up household glass once per month in Greenville, SC, with a 12-gallon bin, for households with minimal glass waste.
• Spartanburg Household Glass Collection Subscription (Bi-Weekly Pickup) Regional variant of the bi-weekly residential glass pickup subscription priced for households in Spartanburg, SC, with a one-time $20 onboarding fee and 12-gallon bin.
• Commercial Glass Pickup Service Recurring commercial glass waste pickup subscription serving restaurants, bars, clubs, businesses, churches, theaters, and townhomes in the Greenville-Spartanburg area, with 32 or 64 gallon bins and weekly or bi-weekly collection cadence.
• Sand Products (Recreational/Play Sand, Construction Sand Aggregate, Glass Rock, Glass Blasting Media) Bulk recycled sand SKUs manufactured on-site in Greenville, SC from collected household glass: Recreational/Play Sand at $70/1,000 lbs, Construction Sand Aggregate at $35/2,000 lbs, Glass Rock at $35/2,000 lbs, and Glass Blasting Media priced by inquiry; minimum order 1,000 lbs, with free residential delivery and paid standard commercial delivery.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60,000 bottles diverted from landfill
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Ripple Glass: A glass recycling company focused on bottle-to-bottle recycling, with community drop-off and commercial collection programs. Comparable on the glass recycling value chain and community-engagement GTM motion, though Ripple's output is primarily cullet for remelt rather than sand.
• Strategic Materials: The largest glass recycler in North America, processing post-consumer glass into cullet and recycled glass products for bottles, fiberglass, and abrasives. Direct overlap with Bricolage's glass-to-product recycling thesis, though Strategic Materials operates at industrial scale across the U.S. and does not run residential pickup subscriptions.

Emerging players

• Ridwell: Subscription-based home pickup service for hard-to-recycle items including glass, with regional U.S. service areas. Direct overlap with Bricolage's residential subscription and community-led GTM, though Ridwell operates across multiple waste streams rather than processing glass on-site.
• rPlanet Earth: Emerging recycler focused on producing food-grade recycled plastics and recycling infrastructure. Comparable as a venture-backed, sustainability-focused recycler building new processing capacity, similar in mission and stage orientation to Bricolage's local glass-to-product play.
• KW Plastics: One of the largest plastics recyclers in North America, producing recycled resin from post-consumer streams. Comparable as a mid-scale closed-loop recycling business turning consumer waste into a sellable industrial input, though operating in plastics rather than glass.

Broad incumbents

• Waste Management: The largest U.S. waste and recycling hauler with municipal and commercial contracts across the country, including glass recycling streams. Comparable on the MSW collection/recycling category and direct competitor for commercial and eventually residential glass pickup, but Bricolage's niche is far more localized and specialized.
• O-I Glass: World's largest manufacturer of glass containers and one of the largest consumers of recycled cullet. Comparable as the dominant downstream buyer of recycled glass; Bricolage's recycled sand output is a parallel but smaller reuse pathway within the same glass value chain.
• Vulcan Materials: Largest U.S. producer of construction aggregates, including sand and gravel. Comparable as the incumbent supplier competing against Bricolage's recycled construction sand on price, logistics, and supply reliability in the Carolinas.
• Vitro: Major global glass container manufacturer with strong North American presence and increasing recycled content targets. Comparable on the downstream demand side for recycled glass inputs and as a benchmark for closed-loop glass supply chains.
• Republic Services: Major U.S. recycling and waste hauler offering curbside glass collection in many municipalities. Comparable as a potential disruptor of Bricolage's subscription model if it expands or subsidizes glass curbside pickup in the SC market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/bricdynamics
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bricolage-dynamics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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