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July 2025 eNewsletter has hit email inboxes! Did you receive it? Are you on our mailing list? Don’t miss that latest updates and early notifications of NextCycle Michigan activities.
Watch the autonomous robot from Orange Sparkle Ball (NextCycle Michigan alum) pick up food scraps from restaurants and deliver the material for recycling.
The NextCycle Michigan Accelerator program welcomed 16 new teams: eight teams focused on public sector programs and infrastructure, and the other eight teams focused on recycling supply chains.
Find out who won the best pitch awards and who the audience voted to win people’s choice!
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Featured on 9and10news.com (4/21/25): Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) announced the state’s recycling rate is at a record high for the fourth consecutive year, currently at 25%, having increased from 14.25% before 2019. The article also lists organizations receiving recycling infrastructure and circular economy grants.
Automotive parts are shipped in returnable/reusable containers, however the internal protective packaging can pose a challenge due to mixed material plastic and the economics of moving the used materials to recyclers. Read about a collaborative effort using NextCycle support to solve for this challenge.
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The roundtable focused on creating scalable solutions for recycling and reusing textiles to reduce landfill waste and mitigate environmental impact.
Featured on MLive (3/11/25): Public Thread, a NextCycle Michigan alum, received a Circular Economy Grant to help fund the manufacture of sustainable and upcycled bags.
Learn about the 17 entrepreneurs, nonprofits, small business and community teams that were selected to join NextCycle Michigan’s 2025 summer cohort.
Two accelerator programs accepting applications: NextCycle Sustainable Packaging Accelerator and NextCycle Michigan Accelerator. Both programs provide business and technical support to projects that divert materials from landfills and keep resources in use. Applications are accepted through March 31.
February 2025 eNewsletter has hit email inboxes! Did you receive it? Are you on our mailing list? Don’t miss that latest updates and early notifications of NextCycle Michigan activities.
The grants, from $50,000 to $250,000, will support the development of supply chains in Michigan involving waste material streams through material reuse, repair, remanufacturing, recycling, organics recovery, composting, and increasing markets for recovered materials.
Design Declassified, a NextCycle Michigan alum, is turning plastic waste into 100% recycled sheet materials that can be used to make countertops, furniture, lighting and home goods.
Watch highlights from the 2024 Fall Showcase! Public and private sector teams pitched repair, reuse, recycling, and recycled content projects to compete for awards.
DTE Energy has joined NextCycle Michigan as a partner to support opportunities to keep more materials out of landfills, back Michigan businesses that use recycled content and seek new market solutions to reuse materials such as solar panels and wind turbines.
A total of 14 teams faced a live audience of industry leaders, public sector decision-makers, potential partners, and prospective investors earlier this month in Novi.
Michigan Materials Marketplace allows businesses and organizations to buy, sell and donate surplus materials, creating a closed-loop, collaborative network keeping items out of landfills and in circulation.
Recording of Phil Roos, director of Michigan EGLE, delivering keynote address during the NextCycle Michigan Summer 2024 Showcase.
In early June, 15 new teams began their cohort with NextCycle Michigan. Learn about the recycling, composting, repair, reuse, and end market development projects these teams will advance over the next six months, culminating with a pitch showcase in Oct 2024.
The NextCycle Michigan Summer Showcase put the spotlight on 17 teams as they pitched their reuse, recycling, composting, and recycled-content projects. Read more to learn about the big winners!
Thirty people representing the new cohort of entrepreneurs, small business owners, non-profits and community leaders entered the immersive two-day Accelerator Academy, jumpstarting project development through interactive group exercises and one-on-one coaching, along with a bit of self-reflection.
17 teams have been selected to participate in the next accelerator cohort focused on advancing solutions for organic material recovery and innovative technologies for recycling.
SHAPE aims to solve packaging waste pollution by transforming existing practices and developing sustainable materials and designs that align with collection, sorting, recycling, and upcycling used packaging.
After six months of business and technical support, mentoring, and planning, teams pitched their recycling, reuse, and composting projects vying for prizes totaling $50,000.
The event included workshops and sessions to support 14 teams in further developing their businesses and projects focused on recycling, recovery, and reuse initiatives.
14 teams have been selected to participate in NextCycle Michigan accelerator tracks focused on improving recycling supply chains (RSC) and supporting intergovernmental initiatives & public-private partnerships (I2P3).