Recycllux

At Recycllux, we're building a deep-tech platform to fight marine plastic pollution in a way that’s transparent, data-driven, and scalable. Our mission is to turn marine plastic from a burden into an opportunity - empowering companies to fund verified cleanups and showcase climate-smart, regulation-aligned impact. Using proprietary AI models on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite data, we detect plastic accumulation zones at sea. These insights feed into our intervention portal, where we dynamically match these pollution spots with local cleanup capacity (similar to how ride-sharing platforms match drivers with riders). By empowering local actors - fishing vessels, NGOs, recyclers, repurposing partners, and art high schools (for waste-to-art contests for students)- we create new value chains around otherwise unrecyclable plastic. This not only reduces emissions but boosts employment (into the local coastal economies), awareness, and shared ownership of marine protection. Everything is tracked on blockchain, creating a certified, tamper-proof chain of custody (from detection to recycling/repurposing). Through a transparent, auditable dashboard, manufacturers can access real-time KPIs such as volumes collected, plastic types, CO₂ savings, and recycling rates - allowing them to quantify their plastic offsetting efforts and integrate them seamlessly into sustainability and compliance frameworks. In 2024, we won the Black Sea Common Maritime Agenda’s Project Award for Healthy Marine Ecosystems and the BRIDGE Black Sea High-Tech Summit Investors’ Award as the most bankable project. In 2025, our impact was further acknowledged through official inclusion of our action in the EU Mission Oceans Charter. In April 2025, Recycllux was recognized as one of the Change100 Sustainability Startups to Watch Worldwide.