Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology sector
Strategic acquirers, private equity (buyout funds and growth funds) firms, and valuation benchmarks for Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology
1.1 - About Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology sector
Companies in Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology develop software, hardware, and integrated systems that streamline municipal and commercial waste operations. Offerings span smart collection, sorting and recycling automation, landfill monitoring, and waste-to-energy enablement. These providers help customers plan routes, track materials, optimize recovery, and comply with regulations, delivering lower hauling costs, higher diversion rates, and real-time visibility across fleets, bins, transfer stations, materials recovery facilities, and disposal assets.
Typical portfolios blend route optimization and dispatch software with fleet telematics to coordinate collection. Vendors deploy IoT bin sensors that track fill levels, contamination, and temperature, and integrate weigh station ticketing and billing platforms to manage transactions. Many supply AI vision and robotic sorting for MRFs, along with landfill gas and leachate monitoring powered by predictive analytics. Several also provide waste‑to‑energy control systems, recycling marketplace integrations, ESG reporting, and forecasting dashboards.
Primary customers are municipal solid waste departments, private haulers, and recycling facility operators. Deployments reduce collection miles and fuel spend, increase recovery purity and diversion rates, improve compliance and audit readiness, and enhance service transparency for residents and commercial accounts. Many solutions also raise fleet uptime and safety, support pay‑as‑you‑throw programs, and provide defensible performance data that informs capital planning and contract negotiations.
2. Buyers in the Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology sector
2.1 Top strategic acquirers of Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology companies
Redwood Materials
- Description: Provider of integrated battery recycling, refining and materials production services that localize the battery supply chain, deliver low-cost large-scale energy storage, and manufacture U.S.-made battery materials reclaimed from end-of-life batteries.
- Key Products:
- Battery Materials Production: Tahoe and Carolina campuses refine recycled feedstock into battery materials targeting 100 GWh annual output, enough for more than one million electric vehicles
- Battery Recycling & Refining Service: Integrated reuse, recycling and refining operations recover valuable metals from end-of-life batteries, returning them to the domestic supply chain
- Consumer Battery Recycling Program: Nationwide initiative that enables individuals to send in used lithium-ion devices for responsible recycling and material recovery
- Redwood Energy Storage Systems: Fast, low-cost stationary storage solutions announced to power AI workloads and a changing electric grid with reclaimed battery materials.
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2.2 - Strategic buyer groups for Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology sector
M&A buyer group 1: Waste to Energy
Aemetis
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- Description: Provider of advanced low-carbon renewable fuels and technologies—including ethanol, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, renewable natural gas, and carbon-capture solutions—produced with proven facilities to displace petroleum and cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
- Key Products:
- Low Carbon Ethanol: Delivers ethanol with lower carbon intensity that displaces petroleum-based fuel, cleans the air, and helps farmers thrive
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Renewable Diesel: Supplies renewable drop-in jet and diesel fuels that replace fossil energy, supporting aviation and road transport decarbonization
- Renewable Natural Gas: Produces pipeline-quality RNG by capturing methane from California dairy digesters, providing a new source of natural renewable energy
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Implements projects that capture and permanently store carbon dioxide from fuel production, lowering lifecycle emissions of renewable fuels.
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3.1 - Buyout funds in the Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology sector
2.2 - Strategic buyer groups for Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology sector
4 - Top valuation comps for Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology companies
4.2 - Public trading comparable groups for Environmental Solid Waste Management Technology sector
Valuation benchmark group 1: Fleet Telematics and Mobility Software
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- Description: Provider of corporate payment solutions and fleet management services, offering fuel cards, data and telematics services, and virtual payment solutions to streamline business operations and manage expenses for commercial and government fleets worldwide.
- Key Products:
- Fleet Fuel Cards: Fuel management and payment cards for commercial fleets
- Virtual Payments: Payment solutions for travel agencies and cross-border transactions
- Telematics Services: Data and telematics offerings for fleet management
- Health Benefits Administration: Plan administration services for consumer-directed health benefits
- Analytics Solutions: Expense and capital management tools for fleets.