You can either build another landfill with a forever liability, or add high-paying manufacturing jobs and receive a Circular Royalty™ on every ton you deliver. Ask your citizens which they want.
| Traditional Waste Management | Advanced Circular Manufacturing | |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Disposal services that charge fees to make problems disappear | Manufacturing operations that take transfer of feedstock under the CSA and convert it into high-value products |
| Cost / Revenue | −$55 to −$250 per ton (community pays) | Pays a Beneficiation Fee of $100–$150 per ton; receives a Circular Royalty™ of $120–$180 per ton in Year 1, rising every year |
| Capital Burden | 100% subsidized by public | Zero CAPEX burden to community |
| Liability | All liability on public — perpetual environmental risk | Complete environmental risk transfer to Carbotura |
| Material Recovery | 0–30% of materials recovered | 100% — Total Material Conversion by design |
| Emissions | Toxins, greenhouse gases, ash disposal | Near-zero emissions by design |
| Jobs | Minimal, low-wage hauling jobs | 100+ direct + ~300 indirect high-paying manufacturing jobs per 400 TPD factory |
| Industry | Sunset industry dependent on public subsidy | Sunrise industry — community receives Circular Royalty™ |
Transform manufacturing feedstock streams into valuable materials while eliminating environmental burden. Near-zero emissions, near-zero residual, near-zero discharge — carbon negative by design at −1,522 to −1,566 tons CO₂e/day per 400 TPD factory.
100+ direct manufacturing jobs per 400 TPD factory, ~300 indirect and induced positions, $32M+ annual economic impact. Recurring Circular Royalty™ revenue beginning 13 months after the first Beneficiation Fee payment.
Position your community as a leader in Advanced Circular Manufacturing — the fastest-growing industrial category replacing legacy waste infrastructure worldwide.
Enclosed, airlocked operations with APS — no odor, no emissions to neighborhood. Quality of life improvements alongside recurring revenue that never existed before.
Elemental dissociation and Advanced Circular Manufacturing — 171 technical disciplines and OEM-certified modules. 50–100× more sophisticated than traditional approaches across every dimension.
Modular 100 TPD increments scale to 6,000+ TPD. Start with what your community produces today, scale as your community grows — no stranded infrastructure, no overcapacity.
The Circular Supply Agreement is not a waste services contract. It is a 30-year financial instrument that restructures your balance sheet, improves your credit position, and creates a receivable asset from a liability.
Eliminating $450M–$900M in unfunded landfill liabilities while adding $320M NPV revenue asset can strengthen balance sheet sufficiently to improve bond ratings by 1–2 notches with rating agencies.
Stronger balance sheet and positive cash flow increase bonding capacity by $200M–$500M for other critical infrastructure projects — schools, roads, water systems.
Your Circular Royalty™ rises every year: the fee escalates 2.5% a year and the royalty multiplier adds a point on top. Traditional disposal costs escalate at 3%+ annually. The spread widens in your favor every year for 30 years — locked in at contract execution.
The feedstock stream — previously an unfunded liability — becomes a recognized revenue-generating asset on your balance sheet. The 30-year Circular Supply Agreement creates contractual receivables that can be valued, forecasted, leveraged, or securitized — a fundamentally different financial instrument than a disposal contract. Annual cash flow swing: +$27.4M to +$38.4M per year for a 400 TPD facility.
A long-term manufacturing partnership. Carbotura manufactures and sells all Circular Materials. Your community's financial return is the royalty stream — not a share of product revenue. Every deployment proceeds under a single CSA structure — the Circular Royalty™ path.
Carbotura manufactures and sells all Circular Materials. Your community's return is the Circular Royalty™ — a cash royalty on the manufacturing operation, not a share of product revenue.
*Analysis reflects the CSA structure applied on every deployment today, at the published Year 1 fee range of $100–$150/ton rising 2.5% a year. The Beneficiation Fee and the Circular Royalty™ are separate payments in opposite directions and are never netted; the royalty is shown as earned on each year’s tonnage and is paid 13 months in arrears. Traditional weighted average includes landfill disposal, WTE incineration, and MRF processing fees. All figures per ton, subject to CSA terms.
Traditional model: −$450M to −$900M in liabilities over 30 years. Carbotura model: the feedstock and its liability transfer to Carbotura under the Circular Supply Agreement. Over 30 years the community pays $0.64B to $0.96B in Beneficiation Fees and earns $0.87B to $1.31B in Circular Royalty™, as two separate payments (illustrative, at the published ranges).
~90 sec · How the Circular Supply Agreement works for your community
Every community we engage gets a dedicated site with its own study, proposal and benefits. Open any of them to see how the program fits a real place.
Tell us about your community. A member of the Carbotura Communities team will follow up within two business days with a preliminary briefing — including estimated Beneficiation Fee range, Circular Royalty™ projections, and next steps toward an executed CSA.