Ecotech
Ecotech is a US-based vertical recycler and manufacturer that converts hard-to-recycle plastics (codes 2, 5, 7) into RCS-certified resin and finished consumer products for nationwide retailers and third-party manufacturers via its closed-loop FullCircle system.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2014
- HeadquartersSpringdale, United States
- Headcount501–1,000
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Ecotech does
Ecotech, Intl. is a US-based, vertically integrated plastics recycler and product manufacturer founded in 2014 that runs a closed-loop production system branded Ecotech FullCircle. The platform ingests hard-to-recycle plastics classified under resin codes 2, 5, and 7 (polypropylene, polycarbonate, HDPE) — categories most US recyclers reject — and converts them through sorting, cleaning, shredding, melting, extrusion, pelletization and ASTM-tested resin production into fully traceable RCS-certified resin and finished consumer goods. The company operates three US facilities (Fayetteville, Arkansas; Colton, California; Mira Loma, California), with the Colton site running fully lights-out via robotic automation, and has a stated capacity to divert up to 30 million pounds of plastic per year from landfills and waterways. Ecotech holds an FDA Letter of Non-Objection allowing recycling of food-safe plastics into new food-safe plastics, and operates an in-house ASTM testing lab and 3D prototyping capability.
The business operates a B2B sales-led motion with multi-year quote-based contracts. Ecotech monetizes through three streams: (1) sale of private-label and Ecotech-branded finished products (coolers, storage crates, totes, luggage, pill bottles, food containers, trash cans, seasonal and pet items) to nationwide big-box, department, online and specialty retailers; (2) sale of FullCircle RCS-certified recycled resin (PP, HDPE, PC) to third-party manufacturers; and (3) custom product co-development services in which Ecotech's in-house product team works alongside retailer clients' teams on exclusive seasonal and event lines. Take-back / reverse-logistics programs with retailers (car seats, pallets, retired shopping carts, returned items) supply feedstock and deepen account integration. Marketing is primarily organic, leveraging owned social channels (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn), the #FollowTheTrash movement, and retail co-marketing rather than paid acquisition. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding history, investors, or revenue figures, and is reported to employ between 501 and 1,000 people.
Ecotech firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Ecotech
- Legal name
- Ecotech, Intl.
- Website
- https://ecotech.world
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2014
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 501–1,000 employees
- Short description
- Ecotech is a US-based vertical recycler and manufacturer that converts hard-to-recycle plastics (codes 2, 5, 7) into RCS-certified resin and finished consumer products for nationwide retailers and third-party manufacturers via its closed-loop FullCircle system.
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Ecotech industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Recycled Plastics Manufacturing
- NAICS
- Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (325211), Custom Compounding of Purchased Resins (325991)
- SIC
- Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Plastic Recycling Equipment & Technology Providers (Sorting, Washing, Extrusion) (EUAIAKAM)
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Where Ecotech is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Springdale
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices4 records
Markets served
Ecotech business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Finished sustainable products (private-label and Ecotech-branded): Sells private-label and own-brand finished products (coolers, storage crates, totes, luggage, pill bottles, food containers, trash cans, pet items, seasonal items, bath, baby/kids, camping, garage, automotive categories) manufactured from its own FullCircle resin to retailers nationwide.
- Resin sales to manufacturers: Sells advanced RCS-certified FullCircle recycled resin (PP, PC, HDPE) to other manufacturers who do not produce their own resins but need a traceable, high-quality recycled input.
- Custom product development / co-design services: Designs exclusive product lines for retailers (seasons, events, markets) and works with clients' in-house product development teams — a service/consulting component bundled with manufacturing.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Multi-year contract | Quote-based B2B pricing for resin, private-label products, and custom product development — no public price list. |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels8 records
Ecotech product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Ecotech operates a vertical, closed-loop manufacturing system called Ecotech FullCircle that receives hard-to-recycle plastics (resin codes 2, 5, and 7 — PP, PC, HDPE), sorts, cleans, shreds, melts, extrudes, and pelletizes them into RCS-certified FullCircle Resin, then uses that resin in-house to manufacture finished private-label and Ecotech-branded products (coolers, storage crates, totes, luggage, trash cans, pet items, seasonal goods, bath, baby/kids, camping, garage, and automotive categories) sold through nationwide retailers. The company also sells its RCS-certified recycled resin directly to other manufacturers and runs take-back/recycling programs that consume hard-to-recycle plastic waste streams from retailer partners.
Product overview
Ecotech operates a single unified vertical platform — the Ecotech™ FullCircle closed-loop manufacturing system — rather than a discrete multi-module SaaS product. The platform's core output is Ecotech™ FullCircle Resin, an RCS-certified recycled PP/HDPE/PC resin made from hard-to-recycle plastics (codes 2, 5, and 7); this resin is then converted in Ecotech's U.S. facilities (Fayetteville, AR; Colton and Mira Loma, CA) into the finished Ecotech Sustainable Products portfolio, including flagship Ecotech Coolers and items across automotive, baby and kids, bath, camping, garage, home storage, pet, seasonal, and trash-can categories. The FullCircle process (intake → coding → cleaning → shredding → melting → pelletizing → lab testing → design → molding → AQL QA → retailer) is the underlying engine that ties the resin product and finished-goods product lines together.
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Products and services
- Ecotech FullCircle closed-loop manufacturing system Ecotech's proprietary closed-loop, vertical recycling and manufacturing system that receives hard-to-recycle plastics (PP, HDPE, PC — resin codes 2, 5, and 7), assigns each load a tracking code, cleans, shreds, melts, extrudes, pelletizes, and produces RCS-certified resin that is then used to manufacture fully recyclable products in Ecotech's U.S. facilities.
- Ecotech FullCircle Resin RCS-certified recycled PP, HDPE, and PC resin produced through the Ecotech FullCircle process. The resin is fully traceable, matches any Pantone color and most custom colors, is lab-tested against ASTM standards (D1238 melt flow, D256 impact, F963-11 heavy metals), and is sold both to other manufacturers and used internally to make finished Ecotech products.
- Ecotech Coolers Coolers manufactured from 100% post-consumer-waste Ecotech FullCircle resin; fully recyclable after use and described by Ecotech as the only cooler of its kind. Listed under the 'camping' category on the products page.
- Ecotech Sustainable Products portfolio Portfolio of RCS-certified finished goods manufactured by Ecotech from its FullCircle resin, spanning categories including automotive, baby and kids, bath, camping, garage, home storage, pet items, seasonal, and trash cans — examples include coolers, storage crates, totes, luggage, pill bottles, food containers, shopping carts, and pallets — sold through nationwide retailers under private-label and Ecotech branding.
- Custom product development and co-design services Designs exclusive private-label product lines for retailers — seasonal, event, and market-specific lines — and co-develops products with retailers' in-house product development teams using Ecotech's FullCircle resin and in-house 3D prototyping; a service/consulting offering bundled with Ecotech's manufacturing capabilities.
Companies that use Ecotech
Customer profileSegments4 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Ecotech technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature8 records
Ecotech partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Recycling partners (paper, metals, other plastics)coreEcotech separates non-target contaminants (paper, metals, other plastics, silicones, rubbers) during its FullCircle process and sends them to specialist recyclers of those materials. The website states: "We then take those items we can't use and send them to recyclers of those materials." Named partners are not publicly disclosed.
- Unnamed metal-recycling partnerminorEcotech developed a patent-pending system to separate plastic and metal for a client, then "found a partner to take the metal and recycle it" — described by Ecotech as a win-win for the client, Ecotech, the new partner, and the ecosystem. The partner is not named publicly.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Ecotech competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- PureCycle Technologies: PureCycle uses a proprietary purification process to recycle polypropylene (resin code 5) into virgin-like resin and sells to manufacturers and consumer brands. Closest direct peer to Ecotech's FullCircle resin business, particularly for PP, though PureCycle focuses on purification rather than mechanical recycling.
- Envision Plastics: Envision Plastics operates post-consumer recycled HDPE and PP resin lines, with FDA food-contact approvals comparable to Ecotech's FDA Letter of Non-Objection for food-safe recycled plastics.
- GreenMantra Technologies: GreenMantra converts recycled plastics (including polypropylene and polystyrene) into specialty waxes and polymers for industrial customers — a comparable advanced-recycling player serving manufacturers with value-added recycled inputs.
- Preserve (Recycline): Preserve manufactures consumer products (kitchenware, toothbrushes, tableware) from 100% recycled plastics, sold through retail — directly comparable to Ecotech's finished-goods portfolio and private-label programs with retailers.
- CarbonLite: CarbonLite recycled PET (code 1) bottles into food-grade resin and manufactured products for major retailers, a vertically integrated recycler-manufacturer model directly analogous to Ecotech's FullCircle approach, though focused on PET rather than codes 2/5/7.
- MBA Polymers: MBA Polymers recovers plastics from end-of-life durable goods and shredder residue, producing engineering-grade recycled resins (including PP and ABS) for manufacturers — directly analogous to Ecotech's role of pulling hard-to-recycle streams into usable resin.
- Avangard Innovative: Avangard is a large US plastics recycler producing recycled resin and PCR pellets for manufacturers and retailers — comparable in scale and B2B distribution model to Ecotech.
- KW Plastics: KW Plastics is one of the world's largest producers of post-consumer recycled HDPE and PP resin (codes 2 and 5), supplying manufacturers with traceable PCR feedstock — directly comparable to Ecotech's resin sales line.
Emerging players
- Plastic Bank: Plastic Bank collects ocean-bound plastic and converts it into Social Plastic resin for use in consumer products, offering a third-party-verified recycled feedstock comparable to Ecotech's RCS-certified approach but with an explicit social-impact angle.
Broad incumbents
- Eastman Chemical (recycling division): Eastman's molecular recycling programs (including polyester renewal) target hard-to-recycle plastics and supply resin to manufacturers at scale, representing the broader-incumbent threat that Ecotech competes against in advanced recycling.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat7 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
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Frequently asked questions about Ecotech
What does Ecotech do?
Ecotech operates a vertical, closed-loop manufacturing system called Ecotech FullCircle that receives hard-to-recycle plastics (resin codes 2, 5, and 7 — PP, PC, HDPE), sorts, cleans, shreds, melts, extrudes, and pelletizes them into RCS-certified FullCircle Resin, then uses that resin in-house to manufacture finished private-label and Ecotech-branded products (coolers, storage crates, totes, luggage, trash cans, pet items, seasonal goods, bath, baby/kids, camping, garage, and automotive categories) sold through nationwide retailers. The company also sells its RCS-certified recycled resin directly to other manufacturers and runs take-back/recycling programs that consume hard-to-recycle plastic waste streams from retailer partners.
Is Ecotech a public or private company?
Ecotech is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was Ecotech founded?
Ecotech was founded in 2014. It employs 501 to 1,000 people.
Where is Ecotech based?
Ecotech is headquartered in Springdale, United States, in the North America region.
How does Ecotech make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Finished sustainable products (private-label and Ecotech-branded) is the primary driver. The others are resin sales to manufacturers and custom product development / co-design services.
Who are Ecotech's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are PureCycle Technologies, Envision Plastics, GreenMantra Technologies, Preserve (Recycline), CarbonLite, MBA Polymers, Avangard Innovative and KW Plastics. Plastic Bank is listed as an emerging player. Eastman Chemical (recycling division) is listed as a broad incumbent.
Does Ecotech have an API?
No public API is recorded for Ecotech.
What industry is Ecotech in?
Ecotech's product category is Recycled Plastics Manufacturing. Its primary akta.pro industry code is IMANAAAH, Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins), with a secondary code of EUAIAKAM, Plastic Recycling Equipment & Technology Providers (Sorting, Washing, Extrusion). Its NAICS code is 325211 and its SIC code is 2821.