Check out these Good Market approved social enterprises, responsible businesses, nonprofits, and voluntary initiatives that focus on community waste management and circular local economies. ❤️ Know another group working to transform waste into resources? Get in touch or encourage them to apply.
Biocomp
Lalitpur, Nepal
Biocomp produces high quality compost from organic waste in the Kathmandu valley. Their goals are to contribute to a circular economy, reduce green house gas emissions, and support sustainable and climate resilient food systems. Biocomp …
Blue Star recycles electronic waste according to the highest environmental standards and creates jobs for people with autism and other disabilities in Colorado Springs, Denver, and Boulder. For residential recycling, they accept computers, televisions, …
Clean City provides a comprehensive community-based approach to waste management in developing countries. They work with local organizations to raise public awareness, catalyze community action, and develop collection, composting, and …
Ceiba Green is focused on developing practical solutions and initiatives to address the growing waste problem in Bhubaneswar, India. They supply alternatives to single-use plastic products, provide consulting services related to waste …
Doko Recyclers promotes and enables smart sustainability and a circular economy by working with corporations, educational institutions, apartment buildings and colonies, factories, hotels, restaurants, and households in Nepal to reduce and …
Daily Dump uses design to reduce waste, improve material recovery, enable better livelihoods, change mindsets and behavior, and inspire voluntary collective action. They make it easier for people to reduce their household waste and produce high …
Eco Friends provides a mobile app to connect households and recycling centers and improve waste management in Sri Lanka. Users enter the recyclable waste they have by category, and Eco Friends organizes collection and delivery to recycling …
EcoSage is a Himalayan waste management company that is using smart waste collection and treatment systems to transition to a zero waste circular economy in the region. They are developing waste exchange centers in hill stations, offering …
greenYng is a digital recycling platform that connects a network of smart bins with user-friendly apps. They aim to transform waste collection and make recycling a more educational, fun, and rewarding experience. Citizens can use the app to find …
Green Collect is working towards a world without waste by providing circular economy solutions for office and home goods and creating job opportunities and community for people who have faced barriers to employment. They collect discarded …
Irverde is working to transition Karachi to a zero waste circular economy through awareness campaigns, environmental education, waste reduction, and recycling. They pay traditional waste collectors for recyclable materials, which are …
Khaalisisi is a digital waste management platform that connects waste sellers with waste buyers and increases the volume of waste that is recycled in Nepal. There are about 13,000 collectors in Kathmandu alone. Khaalisisi partners with these local …
Más Compost, Menos Basura prevents waste from entering the Doña Juana landfill in Bogotá, Colombia. They make it easy for homes, restaurants, and companies to compost their food waste by providing air-tight buckets, wood shavings for odor …
Neptune Recyclers is a pioneer in the recycling and waste management sector in Sri Lanka. They use state of the art shredding, baling, and weighing machines for paper waste and cotton fabric off-cuts. They also collect plastic and …
Promesa is dedicated to transforming environmental education in Mexico through sustainability programs in schools, homes, companies, and other organizations. For school programs, one of the first steps is segregation and collection of waste for …
Partnership for Sustainable Development (PSD) Nepal works with the mountain people of Langtang to cultivate circular economies and find solutions for plastic waste in Himalayan national parks. They developed a one rupee per PET bottle …
Phoenix Solutions enables corporate philanthropy, social impact, and circular economy practices through professional IT asset disposal. They provide value recovery, onsite or offsite data destruction, IT recycling, and reverse logistics services to …
R.City offers food recycling services that reduce landfill waste, build urban farmland, and provide fresh, local food in the Phoenix Metro Valley. They make it easy for homes, businesses, churches, and restaurants to compost their food waste by …
Skrap aims to build awareness around “waste,” inspire positive climate action, and help businesses and brands adopt sustainable practices and zero waste solutions. Their Zero Waste Office service includes waste audits, customized waste …
Thalpe Recycling Centre is a community-supported initiative that offers recycling pickup on the southern coast of Sri Lanka. They collect recyclable plastic, glass, metal, and paper, clean and sort it, and sell it to recycling organizations. This prevents …
The Rebuild Site brings together contractors, organizations, and individuals to create a circular economy ecosystem and prevent construction materials from becoming waste. They collect surplus materials from construction sites and sell them …
Vibhava was started to provide innovative solutions to the biggest challenges in Sri Lanka from pollution to poverty. Zerotrash currently collects 18 types of materials for recycling and upcycling and is working to develop more solutions to reduce the …
Waste Less Arugam Bay (WLAB) provides holistic solutions to the problem of plastic pollution in the Arugam Bay area of Sri Lanka’s east coast. They offer filtered water to reduce the use of plastic water bottles, coordinate a plastic waste …
Waste Management Authority Western Province is a government body that focuses on waste management systems for the most populated region of Sri Lanka. The Western Province produces 3,500 metric tons of waste per day, which is 60 percent …
Waste Ventures India works with informal waste pickers and bulk waste generators like corporations, office parks, residential communities, and educational institutions to divert waste from landfills and create inclusive, decentralized, holistic …
Zero Waste Event Productions is a leading recycling, composting, and waste management provider for indoor and outdoor live music events, sporting events, community gatherings and conferences. They serve more than 30 events across 10 …
Zero Waste Ladakh aims to change the way that waste is perceived and managed in Ladakh based on the 6 Rs of zero waste: rethink, refuse, reduce, repair and reuse, recover, and rot. They conduct awareness campaigns, conserve …