What changes for your household
One bin — everything in
Every material your household generates goes in one bin. No sorting by type, no rinsing containers, no decoding recycling labels. The Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility handles all of it.
No sorting required
15–30 minutes back per week
No more rinsing containers. No sorting into separate bins. No special trips for electronics or batteries. Standard collection accepts all materials every pickup day.
Time returned to you
Lower city costs over time
The Beneficiation Fee the city pays is designed to be exceeded by the royalty Carbotura pays back from Year 2.
City royalty from Year 2
Better property values nearby
The Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility is an enclosed, airlocked industrial building — no open material piles, near-zero odour or atmospheric discharge. Manufacturing classification, not a waste site.
Enclosed · Airlocked
Near-zero landfill odour
Today, Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill creates odour across West Oʻahu. When it closes and ACM begins, the primary odour source is eliminated. The ACM facility is designed for near-zero atmospheric discharge.
WGSL closure solution
Ultrapure water produced
The conversion process recovers 87,000+ gallons of ultrapure water daily at Phase Expanded — enough for hundreds of households. Produced on-site from the conversion process itself.
87,000+ gal/day designed
Energy independence
The conversion process generates the energy the facility needs to run itself — Island Mode, zero external grid draw. The facility operates independently of HECO during normal operations.
Near-zero grid draw
Enclosed collection vehicles
The same fully enclosed collection vehicles that already serve Oʻahu residents continue unchanged. No open-top trucks, no loose material on residential roads. Collection experience is identical.
No change to your pickup
200 new skilled manufacturing jobs
Phase Expanded creates approximately 200 direct manufacturing roles in the community — plus roughly 600 indirect and induced jobs island-wide. Manufacturing jobs, not logistics roles.
200 FTE Phase Expanded
100% becomes a finished product
~100% of everything collected is converted into manufactured products — synthetic graphite, graphene compounds, and recovered minerals. About 90% is sold globally as manufactured materials; the rest is hydrogen used to power the facility itself, which returns as net-positive ultrapure water that is also sold or donated. Nothing is burned for energy — near-zero residual, no combustion.
~90% sold globally · 100% converted
Carbon negative
At Phase Expanded, the facility removes the equivalent of over 120,000 cars from the road every year in CO₂e reduction. Designed to be carbon negative from Day 1 of operation.
Carbon negative
PFAS destroyed permanently
“Forever chemicals” (PFAS) are broken apart at over 1,200°C in an oxygen-free chamber — permanently destroyed at the elemental level. Not buried, not transferred. Eliminated.
1,200°C+ elemental dissociation
Today vs. With ACM
✗ Today
✗ Multiple bins — sort, rinse, separate by category
✗ Open landfill — materials buried permanently at Waimānalo Gulch
✗ Landfill odour affecting West Oʻahu communities
✗ Government pays disposal cost — no return to city
✗ PFAS and toxins buried, leaching over decades
✗ Carbon emissions from decomposing landfill material
✗ Special trips to drop off electronics and batteries
✗ WGSL closure March 2, 2028 — no alternative contracted
✓ With ACM
✓ One bin — everything in, nothing to sort
✓ Near-zero landfill — everything converted to manufactured product
✓ Enclosed airlocked facility — near-zero odour or discharge
✓ City receives royalty from Carbotura — growing for 30 years
✓ PFAS destroyed at the elemental level — permanently
✓ Carbon negative — removes more than it emits
✓ Standard collection accepts all — no special drop-offs
✓ 30-year contracted processing certainty from Q1 2028
What you stop doing
Rinsing containers
Not required. The manufacturing facility handles contaminated materials — food residue, liquids, mixed contents. Rinsing before collection is no longer necessary.
Sorting by category
Not required. One bin accepts all material types: food, packaging, metals, glass, paper, textiles. The facility separates and processes everything internally.
Flattening packaging
Not required. The facility handles intact containers, boxes, and packaging. No need to break down or flatten before collection.
Decoding material labels
Not required. All recycling codes and material types are accepted. No need to look up whether a particular type of plastic is accepted this week.
Special drop-off trips
Not required for standard household electronics or batteries. Standard collection accepts all. Hazardous materials with safety risks (large propane tanks, corrosives) still require dedicated handling.
Contamination worry
Not applicable. The contamination concept doesn’t exist for ACM — the process accepts all material combinations without penalty to the collection service.
Oʻahu’s environmental contribution — at Phase Expanded
Designed targets at commercial scale — not guaranteed operational outcomes.
~1,544 t
CO₂e removed daily
~17M t
CO₂e over 30 years
87,000+ gal
ultrapure water daily
~0
landfill disposition
All environmental figures are designed targets at commercial scale — not guaranteed operational outcomes.
Your city earns while it converts
Total royalty over 30 years
$401M+
Carbotura pays your city a royalty on the value of what your materials become — starting 13 months after the factory opens and growing every year. This is not a discount. It is not a rebate. It is a contractual royalty derived from manufactured product revenues.
Your materials collected
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Converted to products
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Products sold globally
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Royalty back to Oʻahu
Under the CSA: for every $1 Oʻahu pays in Beneficiation Fee, Carbotura is designed to return at least $1.20 in royalty (independent payment from product revenues).
Here’s where everything happens
Where your materials go, what closes, and where the factory would be built.
Key Oʻahu Locations
Where the factory would go
Campbell Industrial Park, Kapolei — next to H-POWER, about 2 miles from the landfill being replaced. An industrial zone ready for manufacturing.
The landfill being replaced
Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill — legally required to close by March 2, 2028. Currently where Oʻahu’s unrecycled materials go. About 2 miles from the factory site.
Where the ash comes from today
H-POWER / Reworld™ — the existing energy recovery facility. It burns materials and sends the ash to the landfill. The ACM factory processes the original material stream before it ever reaches H-POWER.
Your questions answered
Do I really just put everything in one bin?
Yes. Every material your household generates — food scraps, packaging, paper, metals, glass, textiles, electronics, batteries — goes in one collection bin. There is no sorting. There are no separate bins for different material types. Sorting happens inside the Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility, not in your home. There are no contamination penalties and no rejected loads.
Will my neighbourhood smell different?
Yes — for the better. Today, Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill produces odour that affects West Oʻahu communities during certain wind conditions. When WGSL closes in 2028 and the ACM facility begins operations, that odour source is eliminated entirely. The ACM facility itself is designed for near-zero atmospheric discharge — an enclosed, airlocked industrial building with no open material piles. The neighbourhood character improves, not worsens.
How does this reduce what I pay?
Directly and indirectly. The city pays a Beneficiation Fee to Carbotura per ton of material processed — but from Year 2, Carbotura pays a royalty back to the city that is designed to exceed that fee on a per-ton basis. Additionally, eliminating the separate sorting infrastructure reduces collection overhead costs over time.
What about electronics and batteries?
Standard household electronics, spent batteries, old phones, laptops, and similar items are accepted in standard collection. No separate drop-off trip is required. The Advanced Circular Manufacturing process handles all material types, including electronics, without special preparation. For items with immediate safety risks — like propane tanks with residual gas or items with large quantities of corrosive materials — existing City hazardous materials drop-off procedures still apply. But your standard weekly electronics are covered.
Is this just incineration?
No — and the difference matters. Incineration burns material with oxygen and a flame. It destroys the material, produces ash, carbon dioxide, and air emissions. The remaining ash (about 10% of the original volume) still goes to a landfill — as it does today at WGSL. Advanced Circular Manufacturing uses microwave energy in a sealed, oxygen-free chamber with no flame and no burning. The material is broken apart at the elemental level into its component elements, which are then separated into manufactured products: synthetic graphite, graphene compounds, and recovered minerals. The material is not destroyed — it is manufactured into something valuable. This is why it qualifies for manufacturing NAICS codes (Sector 31–33), not solid waste codes. H-POWER is incineration. Carbotura’s ACM is manufacturing.
Environmental and performance figures are designed targets at commercial scale — they are not guaranteed operational outcomes. Financial projections are modelled estimates. All projections are subject to site-specific conditions and feasibility confirmation.