Advanced Circular Manufacturing replaces two landfills, ends sorting, and pays your cities back — for 30 years.
What an Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility means for residents — what changes at the kerb, what the Regina–Moose Jaw corridor receives, the jobs created, and the environmental effect.
Here is what Advanced Circular Manufacturing — the new manufacturing system being proposed for the Regina–Moose Jaw Corridor — means for daily life in your neighbourhood.
Here is what the same daily act — putting out your household materials — looks like now, and what it looks like with the new system in place.
These are the specific household tasks that disappear when one-bin collection begins.
What the corridor's household materials do for the environment when converted, not buried. All figures are designed targets at commercial scale.
All environmental figures are designed targets at commercial scale — they are not guaranteed operational outcomes.
That is the projected total amount designed to be paid back to the cities of Regina and Moose Jaw — and the communities in between — over the 30-year contract. It comes from Carbotura, paid as a royalty on the value of what your household materials become once they are converted into manufactured products sold globally.
This is not a discount. It is not a rebate. It is a contractual royalty — derived from the value of what your materials become after conversion, paid back to your community every month.
The royalty starts 13 months after the factory opens and grows every year. By Year 30, your city receives more per tonne in royalty than it pays in Beneficiation Fees — every month, for the life of the contract.
Where the new manufacturing facility would go — and what it replaces.
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Locations are approximate. Site selection confirmed at feasibility stage.
The five questions most people ask first — answered in plain terms.
Yes. Everything your household generates goes into one bin. Food scraps, packaging, textiles, clothing, small electronics, batteries, light bulbs, plastics of all types, metals, glass, paper, cardboard — all of it goes into the same collection bin.
The sorting happens inside the manufacturing facility, not in your home. The system is designed to process the full mixed stream exactly as it arrives — no pre-sorting required, no rinsing, no material labels to decode.
There is no category of household material that is rejected. If your household generates it, the collection service accepts it.
The manufacturing facility is designed to be a closed, airlocked environment — meaning it is designed to have almost no smell or atmospheric discharge from operations. This is very different from a landfill or transfer station, which generate odour continuously as buried materials decompose.
For Moose Jaw residents in particular: the current Caribou Street East landfill — which has been operating for nearly 100 years — is a long-standing odour source in the area. When the landfill closes and materials are converted instead of buried, that odour source is eliminated. Neighbourhoods near the current landfill can expect a measurable improvement in air quality.
The factory itself is sited away from residential zones, and its process is enclosed and controlled. It is not an open-air facility.
There are two ways this affects what you pay over time.
Directly: The city no longer pays escalating landfill disposal costs — costs that have been rising by approximately 3% every year and will continue to rise. Instead, the city pays a Beneficiation Fee that grows more slowly. The difference becomes available for other services.
Indirectly: Starting in Year 2 of operations, the city receives a growing royalty payment from Carbotura every month. By design, that royalty is larger than the Beneficiation Fee from Year 2 onward. As the royalty grows over 30 years — reaching over $570 million cumulative — cities can use that income to offset the cost of collection services, reduce utility fees, or fund other community programs.
This does not produce an immediate reduction in your utility bill. But over the 30-year contract, the city's financial position improves substantially — and that improvement can flow back to residents.
No separate drop-off required. Small electronics — phones, tablets, cables, small appliances — and household batteries go in your regular collection bin. The manufacturing facility's process handles these materials in the same way it handles everything else.
The process operates without oxygen and without combustion. This means materials that would be a fire risk in a conventional recycling facility — lithium batteries, for example — do not pose the same risks in this environment. The facility is designed to process the full mixed stream including these items.
Large appliances (washing machines, fridges, ovens) would still have a standard collection process — but everyday household electronics and batteries require no special handling from you.
This is not incineration. The difference is fundamental and it matters.
Incineration burns materials using oxygen. Heat destroys the material — everything becomes ash and carbon dioxide. The material is gone. You get heat as a by-product and a pile of ash that still has to be disposed of.
Advanced Circular Manufacturing uses a different process entirely. Materials go into an enclosed, oxygen-free chamber. Microwaves drive the material apart into its elemental constituents — without burning, without flame, without combustion. Because there is no oxygen, nothing can burn. Instead, the molecules reform into entirely new materials: synthetic graphite, graphene compounds, recovered minerals, and other manufactured products.
The result of incineration is destruction. The result of Advanced Circular Manufacturing is manufacturing — new products made from your household materials.
This process is also how "forever chemicals" (PFAS) are destroyed: without oxygen, there is no path for them to become airborne emissions. The material is dissociated into its elemental constituents permanently.
Carbotura builds factories, not waste facilities. That distinction isn't just language — it determines which permits apply, which investors can participate, and whether the 30-year royalty structure is financially viable.
Carbotura is filing a federal petition with the EPA confirming its process is manufacturing, not waste treatment. If a local or state authority were to classify the facility as a waste operation — even informally — Carbotura would not be able to proceed. The investment model requires manufacturing status.
This is one reason Carbotura works closely with communities before committing capital: to confirm the regulatory path is clear.
If you have questions about what this means for your neighbourhood, your household, or your city — reach out to Carbotura directly. We're building this for your community, and your questions matter.