More than half of plastic becomes waste less than a year after it was produced, and most is sent to landfills or incinerators, rather than recycled or reused.
This plastic, which either remains uncollected or ends up in illegal landfills and open dumps, is most likely to make its way into rivers, and eventually the sea.
Every day, on average 5 kilograms of marine plastic accumulates along each kilometre of coastline, and will keep growing as current plastic waste generation is expected to quadruple by 2050.
12 million tonnes of plastic waste are leaked every year in the marine waters, it costs €75 billion to collect, while failure to recycle costs the world ’s economy $2.5 trillion
In Europe, €630 million are spent every year to cleanup marine plastic waste, while the failure to recycle costs the European economy €105 billion.
Today’s cleanup efforts are:
❌ Manual & inefficient – No real-time data to detect plastic waste accumulations and guide interventions;
❌ Unverifiable – No transparent proof of collection and recycling;
❌ Non-transparent – No clear impact reporting for compliance.
The time to act is now—before the damage is irreversible!
Recycllux®’s Marine Plastic Cleanup-as-a-Service provides a fully integrated, data-driven solution for coastal governments, ports, and corporations to detect and manage marine plastic pollution efficiently.
Included in the top 10 innovation-driven companies in Romania in the Innovation 35 ranking by start-up.ro (Apr 2025)
Included in the Change 100 top sustainability startups to watch in 2025 (Apr 2025)
Article published by StartupCafe.ro (Mar 2025)
Article published by startarium.ro (Feb 2025)
Success Story published by the Common Maritime Agenda for the Black Sea (Oct 2024)
Euronews BLUE. O Românie mai albastră: Recycllux – fără plastic în mări și oceane – Alexandra Cernian (Oct 2024)
Recycllux E-book by TAG Climate (May 2024)
Technology Assessment Report by TAG Climate (Jan 2024)
Startarium – Semi-finalists at “Românii sunt antreprenori” Startup Category (Nov 2023)
Regional Finalist for Best GreenTech 2023 at the Central European Startup Awards (Nov 2023)
Romanian Green Startups Overview Report 2023
Euronews Interview Alexandra Cernian (Nov 2023)
Sustainability Index Magazine 2023 (pag 44-46 – Nov 2023)
Alexandra Cernian speaker at “Vocile Progresului” event by AFIST and University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (Nov 2023)
Euronews Romania Video (Oct 2023)
Green Start-Up Interview Sorina Uleia (Sep 2023)
Revista BIZ – Alexandra Cernian, Recycllux: Cum eliminăm plasticul marin prin modelul Uber (Aug. 2023)
European Commission – Horizon Results Platform (Apr 2023)
TAG Climate Report 2023 – Recycllux -Interview with Sorina Uleia (pag 149 – Mar 2023)
EELISA – Meet promising start-ups with EELISA Unfolds at Demo Day (Dec 2022)
Climate Impact Forecast Report by impact-forecast.com (Nov 2022)
Romania-Insider.com: Sustainable startups from Romania and Bulgaria selected for the Black Sea ClimAccelerator 2022
Startup Café – Idei de afaceri premiate în România (Oct 2021)
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