Teams
NextCycle Michigan teams are made up of entrepreneurs, companies, organizations, and communities. Each Team is selected into programming to receive individualized business and technical support, connect to financial resources, foster partnerships, and refine their ideas to investment-ready status. Once Teams have completed programming, NextCycle Michigan remains a touchstone and support for alumni.
Explore current and alumni teams below.
Goodwill Association of Michigan | Muskegon, MI
Goodwill Association of Michigan is designing textile recycling technologies and hub system to build a stronger, local circular economy.
Michigan Energy Options | East Lansing, MI
Michigan Energy Options is creating a model to divert solar energy components by refurbishing and reusing panels, and recycling end-of-life components.
Harvest Nano | Ann Arbor, MI
Harvest Nano is recovering and converting biomass waste into valuable nanocellulose products.
Duro-Last Roofing | Saginaw, MI
Duro-Last Roofing is establishing infrastructure to increase recycling and diversion of PVC construction materials and increase the circularity of the product in Michigan.
American Classic Dumpster Service | Bailey, MI
American Classic Dumpster Services is evaluating the feasibility of a material recovery facility (MRF) to process construction and demolition materials in rural Michigan.
SCOPS Coating Technologies | East Lansing, MI
SCOPS Coating Technologies is developing a heat-sealable coating technology for paper to replace single-use plastic packaging.
Post Rock - University of Michigan Taubman College | Ann Arbor, MI
Post Rock - University of Michigan Taubman College is engineering a new building facade product from upcycled post-industrial plastic waste.
Nion Metals | Houghton, MI
Nion Metals is supplying materials for new batteries through processing spent batteries and mining waste products.
Scrap Soils | Detroit, MI
Scrap Soils is an organics collections and compost program that uses wood chips to create compost that can be used as a fertilizer and carbon sequestration method.
ZE Place | Hancock, MI
ZE Place is a testing facility using anaerobic digestion to produce biomethane and fertilizer while recovering waste food.
Partridge Creek Farm | Ishpeming, MI
Partridge Creek Farm is an organic waste service hauling from commercial kitchens is looking to create an aerobic digester to increase production and capacity.
Organicycle | Grand Rapids, MI
Organicycle is an organics curbside collection program in the Grand Rapids area looking to increase customer growth to positively impact organics recovery markets in Michigan.
My Green Michigan | Dimondale, MI
My Green Michigan is an established but growing company in the organics industry that is working to operate at full capacity by increasing customers and material intake.
Metro Food Rescue | West Bloomfield, MI
Metro Food Rescue is a food rescue organization in metro Detroit area ready to expand and improve current operations by adding an electric transit van to their fleet.
City of Ferndale | Ferndale, MI
City of Ferndale is interested in developing an in-vessel composting system to process organic waste generated through its new residential and commercial food waste collection program.
Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI
A ROADS Team initiative comprised of Michigan Tech University teams with Marquette County Solid Waste Management Authority (MCSWMA) and Dickinson County Road Commission collaborating to plan a construction section of recycled glass asphalt pavement in Dickinson County.