Recycllux SRL

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, the companies that fund the interventions 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.

As an EIT Climate-KIC portfolio company, our MVP results were published on the European Commission’s Horizon Results Platform (2023, ID: 58919). We have won multiple awards, including the 2024 Black Sea Common Maritime Agenda Project Award (category Healthy Marine and Coastal Ecosystems) and the BRIDGE Black Sea High-Tech Summit Investors’ Award for most bankable project, and in 2025 were included in the EU Mission Oceans Charter and the Change100 Sustainability Startups to Watch list.

We’re currently finalizing the commercial version of our platform and preparing to launch our first pilot interventions along Romania’s Black Sea coast this September. With signed pilot customers and early financing secured, we’re laying the groundwork to scale our solution to other coastal regions in Europe, starting with the Mediterranean.