Exclusive: This startup just secured funding to turn landfills into green energy generators – a 'climate tech blindspot'
21 okt. 2025
07:00
Landfills are emitting more greenhouse gases than the aviation sector – but hardly anyone’s developing tech to tackle it. Could that be about to change?
When Joren Tangelder and Anthonie Jacobson began visiting landfill sites to interview potential customers for their new startup, they quickly realised just how forgotten this corner of climate tech really is.
“We’d ask landfill managers when last they'd been pitched a tech solution, and most of them would say ‘never,’” recalls Tangelder, co-founder and CEO of Amsterdam-based Hydryx.