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Problem

Plastic pollution has become a systemic crisis – environmentally, financially, and reputationally – especially for the manufacturers worldwide that rely on plastic in their products or packaging. These companies now face growing pressure to comply with evolving regulations, bans on single-use plastics, and stricter corporate sustainability reporting standards.

Globally, billions are spent each year on compliance, yet most companies lack effective tools to demonstrate credible, traceable impact. Everyone pays for the damage (fines, lost revenue, and reputational risks), but few can prove they are truly solving the problem.

 

Numbers don't lie

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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

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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

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In Europe, €630 million are spent every year to cleanup marine plastic waste, while the failure to recycle costs the European economy €105 billion.

Pain points

Despite rising regulatory pressure and public concern, there is still no scalable solution for addressing marine plastic pollution – leaving ecosystems, economies, and brands exposed.

⚠️ No scalable method for coordinating efficient, data-driven marine cleanup interventions;

⚠️ No traceable plastic offset solutions to support EPR compliance, plastic neutrality, or sustainability reporting;

⚠️ Multi-million euro fines for non-compliance with legislative mandates;

⚠️ Growing consumer distrust and reputational risks tied to unverifiable or “greenwashed” claims.

The cost of inaction is rising – and the world can no longer afford to guess when it comes to solving plastic pollution.

Solution

At Recycllux, we are turning plastic pollution from a global burden into an actionable opportunity – empowering companies that produce, use, or discard plastic to take real accountability for their plastic waste footprint by funding verified cleanup interventions and demonstrating climate-smart, regulation-aligned impact.

We don’t own ships or recycling plants – we are the software layer that connects corporate stakeholders seeking to offset their plastic footprint with local cleanup existing capacity.

Using proprietary AI models applied to 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 activating local actors – fishing vessels, NGOs, recyclers, repurposing partners, and even high schools through waste-to-art student contests – we build new value chains around hard-to-recycle marine plastic. This approach not only reduces emissions, but also generates jobs, raises awareness, and fosters community ownership of marine protection.

The entire process is tracked on blockchain, creating a tamper-proof, certified chain of custody from detection to recycling or repurposing.

Our dashboard allows corporate stakeholders to access real-time KPIs (collected volumes, plastic types, CO₂ savings, recycling rates), making it easy to quantify plastic offsetting efforts and integrate them into their compliance and sustainability reporting.

Our team

Sorina Uleia

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Alexandra Cernian

Co-Founder & Board Member

Alin Olteanu

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Bogdan Iuga

Co-Founder & Board Member

Marilou Suc

Co-Founder & Chief Ecosystem Development

Piotr Krzysztofik

Board Advisor

Accomplishments

As Featured in

Interview Sorina Uleia AI Everywhere Leaders Podcast (July 2025)

Interview Sorina Uleia PowerStudio.TV (July 2025)

SeedCue Interview Sorina Uleia (July 2025)

DDAccelerator interview series (May 2025)

DOORS Black Sea article highlighting innovations tackling marine plastic pollution (May 2025)

Included in top 10 innovation-driven companies in Romania in Innovation 35 ranking by start-up.ro (Apr 2025)

Included in 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)

Contact us

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Curious how we harness cutting-edge tech (Earth Observation, AI, and blockchain) to power traceable, end-to-end marine plastic cleanup? Get in touch and discover how Recycllux turns pollution into measurable impact.

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Company information

SC RECYCLLUX SRL
CUI 43796976
Intrarea Târgu Frumos 16
Bucharest 040725,
Romania

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