Four teams took home their shares of $28,000 in funding at the Second Annual NextCycle Washington Pitch Showcase, featuring proposed projects designed to reduce waste in Washington.

13 entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and small business teams will receive business and technical support to advance their projects impacting recycling and reuse in Washington state.

The Inlander, a free weekly publication serving the Inland Northwest and centered in Spokane, Washington, highlighted NextCycle Washington’s open application period that is ending January 26.

Read the press release from the Dept of Ecology announcing the application period for the next round of NextCycle Washington.

Download new reports in the NextCycle Washington resource library.

Download the year end report from Cohort 1 (2022-2023) of NextCycle Washington.

Watch the impact of NextCycle Washington's inaugural year including the program's key milestones, community-built programming, powerful testimonials, and compelling pitch presentations.

From GreenBiz (June 2023): Washington Governor Jay Inslee highlighted the NextCycle Washington Circular Accelerator as one of the activities related to a circular economy in the Evergreen State.

From Northwest Wine Report (June 2023): NextCycle Washington collaborative team - BIG Recyclers and the Glass Packaging Institute are working to get large amounts of clean beverage bottles from eastern Washington to Seattle/Portland end-use markets.

From Recycling Today (June 2023): To support a shift to a circular economy, including one which addresses plastics, a new model is being deployed to accelerate solutions and fill gaps through innovation and partnerships: NextCycle.

From GeekWire (June 2023): Seattle is hosting Circularity 23, a conference with a slate of international speakers and dozens of local presenters including NextCycle Washington alumni team GeerGarage.

From GreenBiz (June 2023): NextCycle Washington is a program aimed at buoying support for the local circular economy in Seattle - last month it awarded more than $400,000 in grants to businesses and nonprofits.

From Resource Recycling (May 2023): The NextCycle Washington program awarded over $400,000 total in seed grants, providing up to $10,000, technical support and growth planning for each recipient.

From Spokesman Review (May 2023): Two Spokane nonprofits and NextCycle Washington alumni Spokane Zero Waste and Art Salvage, are working to lessen the amount of textile waste heading to landfills.

From Inlander (May 2023): A collaboration between NextCycle Washington alumni Art Salvage Spokane and Spokane Zero Waste , the Mend-It Cafe event is free to the public.

NextCycle Washington has awarded over $400,000 in grants to projects that will support local efforts to improve waste prevention, product repair/reuse, and material recycling and composting in the state.

From GeekWire (April 2023): NextCycle Washington, GeerGarage, Evrnu, and Zero Waste Washington get a mention in this article about reducing the damage from runaway consumption.

Fourteen teams from NextCycle Washington’s Circular Accelerator program participated in a Showcase challenge to demonstrate their innovative zero waste projects that will support climate action and benefit communities.

NextCycle Washington and other efforts seek to bridge the Circular Economy and Just Transition movements.

NextCycle Washington hosted its first-ever Pitch Showcase on Thursday, March 23, 2023, at Kane Hall at the University of Washington, in Seattle. The Pitch Showcase was the culmination of the Circular Accelerator program, comprised of 14 teams focused on work in the circular economy.

From Auburn Reporter (March 2023): The South King Tool Library in Federal Way, a NextCycle Washington participant, will open a second branch in the South King County area thanks to a nearly $200,000 grant from King County.

A program hosted by Seattle Good Business Network and Zero Waste WA provides idea-stage and development-stage startups with workshops, mentoring, networking and more.

Teams will deliver a summary of their projects focused on waste prevention, material repair/reuse, recycling, composting, or end use that will impact the circular economy for Washington state.

Download the NextCycle Washington Accelerator Showcase Prospectus to learn how your organization can support projects that improve the state’s circular economy.

From People’s Economy Lab (Nov 2022): Restaurant 2 Garden, a NextCycle Washington participant, is an example of an equitable and regenerative economy project led by and serves local community members, providing non-exploitative opportunities for employment and connection, and keeping resources in the community.

From Greenbiz (Oct 2022): In the Pacific Northwest, there’s collaboration brewing between private companies, public government agencies and community-based organizations that want to build a circular economy.

Washington-based accelerator supporting 16 environmental ventures with a combination of business and technical support

From Crosscut (Sept 2022): Recently the center has been able to support business accelerator competitions, such as NextCycle Washington, which aims to identify innovative ideas that can create a circular economy for materials like plastic.

Webinar recording provides information on NextCycle Washington’s Renew Seed Grant Program.

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From Resource Recycling (July 2022): First there was Colorado NextCycle. Then there was NextCycle Michigan. Now, the next NextCycle has landed in Washington state.

Official press release announcing the launch of NextCycle Washington.

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NextCycle Washington held a webinar to introduce the Circular Accelerator and launch the open application period. During this webinar, information was shared about eligibility, types of projects, and upcoming deadlines.

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Closed Loop Partners pledges support to Nextcycle - up to $5 million per project.

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From Recycling Today (April 2022): Closed Loop Partners has pledged support to the NextCycle initiative, working collaboratively with Colorado, Michigan and Washington, to identify opportunities to provide competitively priced and flexible financing of up to $5 million per project.

From Kitsap (Feb 2022): Help design NextCycle Washington.