Recycle

What Recycle does

Recycle is an early-stage startup operating a digital marketplace platform that connects sellers of sorted recyclable waste with buyers, enabling both individual consumers and businesses to monetize paper, plastics, metal, and glass waste streams that would otherwise incur disposal costs. The platform operates on a product-led growth model via a self-serve interface, allowing users to list and sell recyclable materials directly to buyers without intermediation. The company currently operates in Ukraine and has stated plans to expand into Poland and Bulgaria.

The core technology is described as a digital marketplace platform with no disclosed proprietary features, AI capabilities, APIs, or integrations. Revenue is generated through transaction fees or commissions on completed sales between sellers and buyers of recyclable materials, though no pricing details, fee structures, or GMV figures are publicly disclosed. Customer segmentation is horizontal, addressing both B2C (individual sellers) and B2B (business sellers and buyers) segments with the same platform, and no anchor customers, partnerships, or institutional investors are documented in the available source material.

Note on data integrity: firmographic fields list Recycle as a US-based non-profit founded in 2000 in Richmond with a poverty-alleviation mission, while the substantive operational data describes a Ukrainian for-profit marketplace startup. This contradiction within the input is flagged but unresolved given the absence of additional clarifying information.

Name

Recycle

Legal name

Recycle

Website

https://recycleforchange.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Recycle operates a digital marketplace platform enabling individual consumers and businesses in Ukraine to sell sorted recyclable waste (paper, plastics, metal, glass) directly to buyers, monetizing waste streams via transaction fees with planned expansion into Poland and Bulgaria.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recycling & Waste Management Marketplace

NAICS

Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (423930), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Recycling Transfer & Consolidation (Single-Stream, Dual-Stream, Source-Separated) (EUAIABAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Source-Separated Recyclables Collection (Dual/Single-Stream) (EUAIAAAN)

Keywords

• Recyclable waste marketplace
• Secondary materials trading
• Waste monetization platform
• Recycling platform
• Sorted waste sales

Headquarters

HQ city

Richmond

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Marketplace Transaction Fees: The platform enables transactions between sellers of sorted recyclable waste and buyers, likely generating revenue through transaction fees or commissions on completed sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Recycle operates a digital marketplace platform that enables individual consumers and businesses to sell sorted recyclable waste for profit. The platform connects sellers of recyclable materials (paper, plastics, metal, glass) with buyers, currently operating in Ukraine with planned expansion into Poland and Bulgaria.

Product overview

Recycle operates as a single unified platform that enables users and businesses to sell sorted recyclable waste for profit. The platform focuses on high-value waste streams (paper, plastics, metal, and glass) and currently serves the Ukrainian market with plans to expand into Poland and Bulgaria.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recycle Platform A self-serve digital marketplace that enables individual consumers and businesses to list and sell sorted recyclable waste—paper, plastics, metal, and glass—by matching sellers with buyers of recyclable materials. Currently operates in Ukraine with planned expansion into Poland and Bulgaria.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Waste Management, Inc. WM is the largest North American waste and recycling services company, representing the incumbent scale player whose collection, sorting, and MRF operations any recycling marketplace must eventually integrate with or compete against.
• Rubicon Technologies: Rubicon is a US-listed waste and recycling technology platform serving haulers and municipalities, comparable as a software-and-marketplace layer on top of fragmented recycling supply chains.

Emerging players

• Litterati: Litterati is a data-driven platform for tracking and removing waste, comparable as a digital layer attempting to organize informal or under-measured recycling and waste streams.
• Recova: Recova is a digital recycling marketplace focused on connecting businesses with verified recyclers, overlapping with Recycle's B2B seller-buyer matchmaking for sorted recyclables.

Direct peers

• RecycleGO: RecycleGO operates a digital marketplace and traceability platform for recyclable materials, directly comparable as a tech-enabled two-sided platform connecting recyclables sellers with buyers.
• Recykal: Recykal runs a B2B recycling marketplace in India connecting waste generators with recyclers across plastics, paper, and metal, the same dual-sided model Recycle is pursuing in CEE.
• Trashback: Trashback is a Germany-based app that rewards consumers for returning recyclables, closely mirroring Recycle's profit-aligned consumer model for sorted paper, plastic, glass, and metal.
• ReCollect Systems: ReCollect builds digital tools and marketplace-style routing for recycling and waste programs, comparable as a technology provider connecting generators, haulers, and material end-markets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/recycchange

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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