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The Internet Put a Price Tag on a Dumpster. Then Dumpsters.com Built the Logistics Layer.
A blue steel box is the visible product. The harder business is coordinating local haulers, landfill rules, jobsite schedules and customer expectations across the country - one delivery window at a time.
Re:Dish Co.
Re:Dish is a New York-based reuse company that replaces single-use foodservice containers and cups with a full-service reusable dishware program. Through its 'Reuse as a Service' model, Re:Dish delivers reusables, collects them daily, sanitizes them at a high-capacity Brooklyn warewashing facility washing up to 75,000 units a day, and tracks the environmental impact through its DishTrack software. Founded by serial entrepreneur Caroline Vanderlip in 2020, it serves corporate cafeterias, schools, hospitals, arenas and production sets, tackling the roughly one trillion single-use foodservice items thrown away in the US each year.
Olyns
Olyns is a California-based climate-tech company that builds the Olyns Cube, an AI-powered reverse vending machine that lets shoppers recycle beverage containers at retail locations in exchange for cash refunds or rewards. Each Cube doubles as a digital advertising screen, so revenue from brand ads funds the cost of collecting and sorting material - making consumer recycling profitable and scalable without relying on the low value of the plastic itself.
Revive | B-Corp Certified
Revive (stylized (Re)vive) is a New York fashion-tech company that turns returned, damaged, and excess apparel into recovered revenue for brands. Its AI-powered platform inspects each item in minutes to flag damage type and resale potential, then cleans, lightly repairs, and routes goods back to stores or onto resale channels - so unsellable inventory becomes profit instead of landfill. A Certified B Corp, Revive has recovered roughly $23M in gross merchandise value and kept over 150,000 garments out of landfills.
Compost Crew
Compost Crew is a Rockville, Maryland-based organics recycling company that collects food scraps from homes, businesses, schools and local governments across the Greater Washington (DMV) area and turns them into nutrient-rich compost. Founded in 2011 and acquired by CEO Ben Parry in 2018, the company has grown from three trucks into a regional operation that has diverted tens of thousands of tons of food waste from landfills. Operating a network of distributed 'Compost Outposts' in partnership with local farms, Compost Crew aims to make food waste recycling a mainstream, everyday habit while rebuilding regional soil health.
Spoiler Alert
Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based B2B software company that helps the world's largest consumer packaged goods makers sell off excess and short-dated inventory before it ends up in a landfill. Its platform digitizes the messy, manual liquidation process - automating listings, optimizing pricing and freight, and matching surplus product to a curated network of discount retailers and food banks. Founded by MIT Sloan classmates in 2015, the company works with brands like PepsiCo, Nestle, Kraft Heinz, Campbell's, and Danone, and says it has helped divert more than 200 million pounds of food from waste.
Dimension
Dimension is a San Francisco-based B2B waste management platform (formerly Trash Warrior) that uses software and an AI price quoter, Mirror Mirror, to coordinate hauling, recycling, and hazardous waste removal for enterprise customers like Amazon, Instacart, Home Depot, and the DEA - with the long-term aim of pulling the U.S. recycling rate from 35% to 75%.