Ecocycle
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1995
- HeadquartersCampbellfield, Australia
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
Ecocycle firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Ecocycle
- Legal name
- Ecocycle
- Website
- https://ecocycle.com.au
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1995
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Ecocycle industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Hazardous Waste Recycling
- NAICS
- Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211)
- SIC
- Refuse Systems (4953)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Solvent Recovery & Hazardous Waste Recycling/Reclamation (Distillation, Reuse) (BPALAFAH)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Mercury Removal & Trace Contaminant Treatment (Hg, BTEX, Siloxanes) (EUAAABAF), Mercury & Sulfur Removal Sorbents (Oil & Gas) (IMAEAIAJ), Hazardous Waste Recycling & Recovery (Solvent Recovery, Oil Re-refining, Metals Recovery) (EUAIAFAI)
Keywords
Where Ecocycle is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Campbellfield
- HQ country
- Australia
- HQ region
- Oceania
Offices3 records
Markets served
Ecocycle business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Mercury Recovery and Recycling Services: Fee-for-service mercury recovery and recycling from various waste streams including mining waste, fluorescent lighting, dental amalgam, and industrial waste. Customers pay for collection and processing services based on volume and waste type.
- E-waste Processing Services: Processing of electronic waste under the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme. Services for computers, laptops, TVs, peripherals and other in-scope e-waste items.
- Battery Recycling Services: Collection and recycling of various battery types including lead-acid, lithium-ion, nickel-cadmium, and button cell batteries. Includes mercury extraction from button batteries.
- Collection Box Programs: Pre-paid collection boxes for smaller quantities of lighting waste. A single charge covers delivery, pickup and recycling costs.
- Volume-based Collection Services: Larger volumes of waste are charged according to weight and distance travelled. Services include bins, stillages, and custom collection solutions.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Pricing | Pay-as-you-go | Pre-paid Collection Boxes |
| Transaction based/ take rate | Pay-as-you-go | Volume-based Collection (Bins and Stillages) |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Custom Tailored Solutions |
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels6 records
Ecocycle product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Ecocycle provides EPA-licensed mercury recovery and recycling services across Australia, collecting and processing mercury-containing waste from mining, gas and petro-chemical industries, fluorescent lighting, dental and medical facilities, button cell batteries, and e-waste. It also offers mercury retirement/encapsulation services that convert elemental mercury into mercury sulphide for long-term safe disposal, operating through EPA-licensed facilities and a fleet of collection assets (bins, stillages, pre-paid boxes) tailored to customer volume.
Product overview
Ecocycle is Australasia's most experienced mercury recovery and recycling company, operating as part of the Recycal recycling group. The company offers a portfolio of services including core mercury recovery and recycling, mercury retirement/encapsulation, and specialized services for mining/gas/petroleum, lighting, dental/medical, batteries, and e-waste. The core offering is mercury recovery using purpose-built equipment including the LP600 Light Waste Processing Plant and Mercury Batch Process Distiller. The company also operates through subsidiaries Ecobatt (battery recycling) and Eco E-Waste (electronics recycling), and sister company Recycal (scrap metal recycling). Recent major investments include a $30 million lithium battery recycling plant at Campbellfield Victoria and new mercury retirement facility at Kwinana Beach WA. The company holds licenses across all Australian states.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Ecobatt: Battery recycling company specializing in safe collection, processing and recycling of battery products to protect environment.
- Eco e-Waste
Products and services
- Mercury Recovery and Recycling Core service providing EPA-licensed mercury recovery and recycling. Handles complex waste streams from mining, gas, petro-chemical industries, as well as lighting, dental, medical, batteries, and e-waste. Customers are enterprises and government bodies generating mercury-containing waste.
- Mercury Retirement / Encapsulation Service to safely retire and encapsulate mercury, converting elementary mercury into mercury sulphide for safe long-term storage. For customers holding elemental mercury that requires permanent disposal in a compliant form.
- Mining, Gas & Petro-Chemical Mercury Recycling Specialised mercury recovery service for mining, gas and petro-chemical industries handling, processing and recycling mercury contained in complex industrial waste streams. For industrial operators needing compliant disposal of large-volume, complex mercury waste.
- Lighting Mercury Recycling Recycling service for fluorescent tubes, CFLs, sodium vapour lamps, halogen lights and other mercury-bearing lighting. Uses the LP600 Light Waste Processing Plant and batch process distiller to recover high-purity mercury metal. For utilities, electrical contractors, commercial facilities and government bodies with mercury-containing lighting waste.
- Dental and Medical Mercury Recycling Safe collection and recycling of mercury from dental amalgam waste and medical facilities. Provides amalgam separators and recycling certificates for compliance. For dental practices and medical facilities producing mercury-containing waste.
- Battery Mercury Extraction (Ecobatt) Safe recovery of mercury from button cell batteries through partnership with Ecobatt, plus broader battery recycling including lithium batteries via the new Campbellfield plant. For battery manufacturers, distributors and organisations disposing of spent batteries.
- E-Waste Mercury Recovery (Eco E-Waste) Recovery of mercury from fluorescent tubes contained within monitors and laptops via partnership with Eco E-Waste subsidiary, including AI-powered flat screen recycling. For organisations and consumers disposing of computers, laptops, TVs, monitors and peripherals.
- Pre-paid Collection Boxes Pre-paid collection boxes for smaller quantities of lighting waste including fluorescent tubes and compact fluorescent lamps, with delivery, pickup and recycling all covered in a single charge. For small businesses and lower-volume generators of lighting waste.
Quantifiable outcome
- Recovery rates of up to 90% for e-waste materials
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Ecocycle
Customer profileNamed customers6 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Ecocycle technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature6 records
Ecocycle partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
14 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.
- RecycalcoreRecycal is the parent/sister company of Ecocycle and a leading Australian integrated recycling group. Ecocycle is part of the Recycal recycling group. Doug Rowe, owner of Recycal, is also involved in Ecocycle management. Recycal operates scrap metal recycling facilities in Tasmania.
- EcobattcoreSubsidiary specializing in safe collection, processing and recycling of battery products. Works with Ecocycle on mercury recovery from button cell batteries. Has received approval for $30 million lithium battery recycling plant.
- Eco E-WastecoreSister company and specialist electronics recycling company with national coverage to pick up, process and sort e-waste. Works with Ecocycle on mercury recovery from fluorescent tubes in monitors and laptops. One of five co-regulated organisations under NTCRS.
- Cobalt Blue Holdings LimitedflagshipMOU signed to evaluate feasibility of treating black mass from battery recycling within Australia. Cobalt Blue is an ASX-listed company focused on energy storage and mine-to-battery strategies, primarily the Broken Hill Cobalt Project.
- Laser GroupcoreLeading network of nearly 90 electrical contracting firms across Australia. Partners help Australian households and businesses with lighting recycling and greenhouse gas reduction through the partnership with Ecocycle.
- EcovantageminorLighting upgrade company operating in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. Selected Ecocycle as exclusive recycling partner for lighting waste from energy efficiency operations.
- FPD Recycling (Ireland)coreIrish firm that developed the FPD PRO automated mercury-safe flat screen recycling machine. Ecocycle acquired the first unit of this technology for safe recycling of flat panel displays.
- Total Waste Management (Papua New Guinea)minorPNG firm partnered with Ecocycle to process fluorescent lighting. With appropriate licenses from environment protection agencies in both countries, Ecocycle takes mercury-containing waste collected by TWM and processes it in its Australian facilities.
- RecycleSmartminorOn-demand recycling service working with Ecocycle group companies and consumers on sustainable solutions for vape disposal.
- UNEP Global Mercury PartnershipcoreSub-program of UN Environment Chemicals and Waste Branch seeking to facilitate global action for clean mercury production and use. Ecocycle is the only Australian organization to become a program partner.
- FluoroCyclecoreVoluntary product stewardship scheme under Lighting Council of Australia targeting commercial users to increase recycling of mercury-containing lighting waste. Ecocycle is a partner in this initiative.
- Lighting Council of AustraliacorePeak lighting industry body that established FluoroCycle. Ecocycle participates in panel discussions and industry initiatives with the Council.
- Castings TasmaniaminorSister operation using recovered minerals and metals from Recycal to reduce reliance on virgin materials in manufacturing.
- ACL Metal PowersminorSister operation utilizing recovered materials from Recycal operations for metal manufacturing processes.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves11 records
Expansion highlights7 records
Ecocycle competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- Li-Cycle Holdings: Canada-headquartered lithium-ion battery recycler with global hub-and-spoke network processing end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap into black mass. Comparable as a direct competitor in the lithium battery recycling segment that Ecobatt is entering with its new 30,000 t/yr plant.
- TES-AMM: Global e-waste and IT asset disposition company providing reuse, recycling and precious-metal recovery services. Comparable to Eco E-Waste's NTCRS-registered electronics recycling operations targeting similar enterprise customers.
Broad incumbents
- Stericycle: Major regulated waste and compliance services provider serving healthcare, retail and industrial customers with collection, treatment and disposal capabilities. Comparable on regulated hazardous-waste collection and processing infrastructure.
- Cleanaway Waste Management: Australia's largest waste management company providing collection, treatment, recycling and disposal services across hazardous and non-hazardous streams. Comparable as a domestic incumbent whose hazardous waste services overlap with Ecocycle's mercury and e-waste operations.
- Veolia Australia and New Zealand: Global environmental services leader with substantial Australian hazardous waste, recycling and resource recovery operations. Comparable as a broad incumbent competing for the same enterprise and government customers across multiple waste streams Ecocycle serves.
- Suez Recycling and Recovery (Australia): International waste management group with Australian recycling, hazardous waste and resource recovery operations (now part of Veolia). Comparable as a multinational peer offering hazardous and electronic waste services in Ecocycle's home market.
- Clean Harbors: North America's leading provider of environmental and industrial services, including hazardous waste treatment, recycling and disposal. Comparable as a specialized hazardous-waste operator with cross-segment capabilities similar to Ecocycle's recycling group.
Direct peers
- Heritage Crystal Clean: US-based provider of parts cleaning, waste oil collection, and hazardous waste services including solvent recovery and used oil re-refining. Comparable to Ecocycle in the hazardous-waste recycling/reclamation niche with similar industrial customer profile.
- BMT Mercury Group: Western Australian mercury and NORM waste management specialist whose equipment and technology Ecocycle acquired to expand into oil & gas, mining and power. Comparable as a Western Australia-based mercury handling specialist overlapping Ecocycle's mining and gas segments.
- Mercury Waste Solutions: US-based mercury waste collection, recovery and reclamation specialist serving dental, medical, industrial and laboratory generators. Direct functional peer in mercury-specific hazardous waste services aligned with Ecocycle's core competency.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Ecocycle social profiles
Digital presenceEcocycle compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance9 records
Ecocycle financial estimates
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Ecocycle leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles5 records
Ecocycle subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries4 records
Ecocycle funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Ecocycle M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Ecocycle
What does Ecocycle do?
Ecocycle provides EPA-licensed mercury recovery and recycling services across Australia, collecting and processing mercury-containing waste from mining, gas and petro-chemical industries, fluorescent lighting, dental and medical facilities, button cell batteries, and e-waste. It also offers mercury retirement/encapsulation services that convert elemental mercury into mercury sulphide for long-term safe disposal, operating through EPA-licensed facilities and a fleet of collection assets (bins, stillages, pre-paid boxes) tailored to customer volume.
Is Ecocycle a public or private company?
Ecocycle is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was Ecocycle founded?
Ecocycle was founded in 1995. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is Ecocycle based?
Ecocycle is headquartered in Campbellfield, Australia, in the Oceania region.
How does Ecocycle make money?
Five revenue lines are on record. Mercury Recovery and Recycling Services are the primary driver. The others are E-waste Processing Services, battery Recycling Services, collection Box Programs and volume-based Collection Services.
Who are Ecocycle's main competitors?
Emerging players on record are Li-Cycle Holdings and TES-AMM. Broad incumbents are Stericycle, Cleanaway Waste Management, Veolia Australia and New Zealand, Suez Recycling and Recovery (Australia) and Clean Harbors. Direct peers are Heritage Crystal Clean, BMT Mercury Group and Mercury Waste Solutions.
Does Ecocycle have an API?
No public API is recorded for Ecocycle.
What industry is Ecocycle in?
Ecocycle's product category is Hazardous Waste Recycling. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPALAFAH, Solvent Recovery & Hazardous Waste Recycling/Reclamation (Distillation, Reuse), with a secondary code of EUAAABAF, Mercury Removal & Trace Contaminant Treatment (Hg, BTEX, Siloxanes). Its NAICS code is 562211 and its SIC code is 4953.