Green Zone Recycling

Name

Green Zone Recycling

Legal name

Green Zone Recycling

Website

https://greenzonenc.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile Recycling Services

NAICS

Other Waste Collection (562119)

SIC

Wholesale-Apparel, Piece Goods & Notions (5130)

akta.pro primary industry

Textile & Apparel Recycling and Sorting (Non-E-waste) (BPALADAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Textile & Apparel Sorting/Recovery Facilities (EUAIADAJ), Donation, Resale & Textile Recycling Coordination (HSAFABAI)

Keywords

• Textile recycling services
• Secondhand apparel wholesale
• Clothing collection bins
• Textile waste management
• Circular fashion solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Durham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Textile Collection Bin Licensing: Green Zone Recycling generates revenue by providing textile collection bins to commercial centers, retail locations, and multi-family communities. Partner locations receive monthly licensing fees for hosting the bins, with payment options including direct deposit or check. The bins are fully insured and serviced at least weekly.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Green Zone Recycling operates textile collection bins placed at partner venues—commercial centers, individual retail locations, and multi-family communities—on custom specialty leasing contracts with monthly licensing fees. Bins are fully insured and serviced at least weekly. The company also functions as the largest wholesale distributor of secondhand apparel and footwear in the southeast U.S. market, converting collected textiles into wholesale secondhand goods.

Product overview

Green Zone Recycling operates as a dual-service company offering both textile recycling collection infrastructure and wholesale distribution of secondhand apparel and footwear. Their collection service provides fully insured bins to commercial centers, retail locations, and multi-family communities through leasing contracts, while their wholesale distribution business supplies secondhand apparel and footwear to retailers across the southeast U.S. market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Helpsy: Helpsy runs a textile recycling bin program targeting commercial, residential, and retail partners on the U.S. East Coast, directly overlapping Green Zone's bin-licensing value proposition and customer segments.
• USAgain: USAgain operates a national network of textile collection bins placed at commercial and retail locations under a similar licensing/servicing model, making it the closest direct competitor to Green Zone Recycling's collection business.
• Bank & Vogue / Rewoven: Bank & Vogue is a major global wholesale distributor of secondhand clothing, directly comparable to Green Zone's wholesale resale arm as a competing buyer/seller in the global used-clothing trade.

Broad incumbents

• Goodwill Industries International: Goodwill operates donation-based textile collection and resale at massive national scale, serving as both a competing collection channel and a wholesale buyer of secondhand apparel comparable to Green Zone's downstream wholesale arm.
• Waste Management (WM): Waste Management is the largest U.S. waste hauler and has begun piloting textile recycling streams, representing the type of large incumbent that could enter and pressure Green Zone's regional collection franchise.
• Salvation Army: Salvation Army runs one of the largest U.S. networks of textile donation drop-offs and thrift resale, competing for the same donor clothing supply and downstream wholesale secondhand apparel customers.
• Republic Services: Republic Services is a national solid waste and recycling incumbent that competes for commercial recycling contracts and represents a potential platform competitor to Green Zone's B2B bin placement model.

Emerging players

• TerraCycle: TerraCycle operates specialty collection and recycling programs for hard-to-recycle streams, including textiles, and serves as a comparable emerging/specialized player in branded collection infrastructure.

Regional players

• CalRecycle (state programs): State-level textile recycling programs and stewardship organizations, particularly in California and New York, are emerging competitors and potential partners for textile collection infrastructure comparable to Green Zone's model.
• Trans-Americas Textile Recycling: Trans-Americas is a textile recycler operating in overlapping U.S. regions with bin placement and wholesale distribution of secondhand apparel and shoes, directly comparable to Green Zone's dual-revenue model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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