CARBOTURA
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Community Intelligence Portal · the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska

CARBOTURA

Advanced Circular Manufacturing · Anchorage, Alaska
61.218°N · 149.900°W · Glenn Highway Corridor · Alaska
B2G · Phase Initial 400 TPD
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What this document is

The entry point for Carbotura’s Circular Advantage engagement with Anchorage — the documents covering the feedstock system, the commercial structure, the economics, the decision and what it means for residents.

Three things this document says
  1. Anchorage is at a decision point: regional ACM siting capacity goes to first movers, and 12–24 months from permit issuance to commercial operation means a 2028 commissioning target needs authorisation now.
  2. Advanced Circular Manufacturing converts the residual stream into products under one agreement, with no the Municipality capital committed.
  3. The engagement decision has to be taken while the option is still open — authorising later forecloses the earlier phases.
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Engagement Path — Follow the Numbers

1 LOI / MOU engagement begins A non-binding Letter of Intent / Memorandum of Understanding. It opens the engagement, establishes the joint working group and data exchange, and carries no cost and no obligation for the community. Steps 1–5 are paper — typically 3–18 months in total.
2 Term Sheet verification & terms The verification phase. Feedstock streams, volumes, and the community’s disposal-cost basis (FWDC) are confirmed, the site is selected, and the per-tonne commercial terms are agreed before anything is signed long-term.
3 CSA execution = T0 The Circular Supply Agreement — a minimum 30-year supply contract with perpetual continuation. Execution starts the project clock (T0). It locks the Beneficiation Fee, the Circular Royalty™, the feedstock commitment, and site access.
4 Underwriting Carbotura-financed Carbotura finances 100% of the facility, and owns and operates it. The community contributes zero capital and takes no deployment or financing risk.
5 Permitting manufacturing basis Manufacturing classification (NAICS 31–33) is actively pursued, and nothing in the agreement depends on it. Both parties commit to the Regulatory Predicate Transition — the endpoint is categorical: manufacturing classification across all permitting, licensing and regulatory contexts.
6 Deployment deployment · 12–24 months from permit issuance to commercial operation The facility is manufactured and deployed in standardized 100 TPD modular increments rather than built as one-off construction — 12–24 months from permit issuance to commercial operation.
7 COD & Royalties royalty +13mo after first fee Commercial Operations Date: the facility begins accepting feedstock. The Beneficiation Fee applies to delivered tonnage, and the first Circular Royalty™ payment follows 13 months after the first fee payment, then monthly, escalating every year.

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Carbotura · Advanced Circular Manufacturing · Community Overview
For Assembly Members & Officials · Executive Briefing

Assembly-session briefing →

Ten-slide walkthrough: what ACM is (and isn't), what Anchorage receives, three configurations, the regulatory pathway, and the ask — authorize a Deployment Study. 8-minute read.

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400
Phase Initial TPD
~40% of ARL's ~1,000 TPD flow · Estimated
1,200
Phase Expanded TPD
3-borough pathway · matches WTE study sizing
$100
Beneficiation Fee / ton Year 1
Canonical floor · between ARL $87.11 / CTS $101.00 gates · 2.5%/yr
~$693M
30-yr Gross Cost Displacement
Phase Initial only · Estimated
Q3 2029
First Royalty Payment
PI COD + 13mo · T0 + 37mo
$0
Municipal Capital Obligation
Carbotura-financed, owned and operated · WTE needs $500–700M

Engagement Type

B2G · Counterparty: Municipality of Anchorage. Anchor 400 TPD Phase Initial fully supportable from the Municipality of Anchorage feedstock alone. Mat-Su and Kenai Peninsula Boroughs extensions optional and separately negotiated.

Feedstock Corridor

ARL receives ~1,000 TPD (~300k TPY) — the largest-tonnage landfill in Alaska — at gates the Municipality already owns (ARL, CTS, Girdwood TS, MRF). Phase Initial requires no third-party partnership and no contract negotiation.

Decision Window

No regulatory hard deadline. Decision window driven by regional siting capacity and the 12–24 months from permit issuance to commercial operation for Phase Initial. Authorization deadline: Q2 2026.

Community Documents

Six institutional-grade documents covering waste system diagnosis, commercial structure, economic delta, and community impact.

↗ External Resource
Adoption Infographic · Public
What Adopting Carbotura Changes
A plain-language tour of how a 30-year ACM commitment changes a community's fiscal position, employment, and waste system structure. Generic illustrative figures.
adoption.carbotura.com Plain Language
Open ↗
Deployment Study · SP-03
Feedstock Profile & System Diagnosis
Full diagnostic of Anchorage's manufacturing-feedstock streams — volume table, cost structure, UNFC reserve classification, logistics, regulatory baseline, and infrastructure map.
400 TPD Phase Initial ~1,000 TPD at ARL UNFC §1.5
Open document ↗
Proposal · SP-01
30-Year Circular Supply Agreement
Transaction structure, Regulatory Predicate Transition (RPT), site candidates, Beneficiation Fee, Circular Royalty™ formula, risk register, timeline, and community value stack.
$100/ton TMC 120% Base Royalty 3 Site Zones
Open document ↗
EIR · SP-01 + SP-02
Economic Impact Report
State A vs State B delta model — 30-year gross cost displacement, Circular Royalty™ schedule, Phase Delta Map, risk and sensitivity analysis, and decision window quantification.
~$693M Gross Displacement 12 Risks Mapped No-Fallback Analysis
Open document ↗
Executive Brief · SP-02
Decision Instrument
Single-document action brief for elected officials and municipal leadership. Key facts, fiscal period summary, deferral cost quantification, and LOI/MOU execution CTA.
Q2 2026 Deadline $0 Capital Key Facts Table
Open document ↗
Community Benefits · SP-04
Community & Resident Impact
Plain-language community benefit overview — employment, environmental performance, local economy, and resident FAQ. Designed for public engagement and community meetings.
25–280 Direct Jobs Carbon Negative Public Audience
Open document ↗

Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation — Assumptions & Confidence

Source-of-truth references for the key figures cited throughout this document. Full Assumption Registry available on request from the Municipality of Anchorage engagement team.

FieldValueConfidenceSource
Beneficiation Fee Year 1$100/ton canonical floor (paid by Municipality)LOCKEDCarbotura formula floor
Beneficiation Fee escalator2.5%/yr compoundedLOCKEDCarbotura standard parameters
Circular Royalty™ Year 2 / Year 30$120.00 / $295.48 per ton (Carbotura to the Municipality)LOCKEDCarbotura royalty formula
FWDC (Fully-Loaded Cost of Disposal)~$92/ton estimated (conservative; below the Municipality's own 2025 gates of ARL $87.11 / CTS $101.00, which rose to $95.36 / $110.25 in 2026)ESTIMATEDMOA SWS published rate schedules 2025 & 2026 · collection increment NOT ESTABLISHED · subject to Deployment Study verification
Phase Initial TPD400 TPD addressable / 146,000 TPYESTIMATEDArchitect directive; ~40% of the ~1,000 TPD arriving at ARL today
CSA term30-year minimum + perpetual continuationLOCKEDCarbotura CSA standard terms
Direct FTE (Phase Initial)~100ESTIMATEDCanonical scaling: (TPD÷400) × 100
Indirect employment (Phase Initial)~300ESTIMATEDCanonical 3:1 indirect multiplier
Annual economic impact~$32M+ (Phase Initial)ESTIMATEDCanonical: (TPD÷400) × $32M+

Confidence flags follow the Carbotura Confidence Flag classification: VERIFIED (contracted or audited) MODELED (calculated from documented inputs) ESTIMATED (best-available, locked at Term Sheet phase).

Before the LOI/MOU

Six Questions That Decide Everything

Three to open the conversation. Three to close it. If the answers run the way they always do in the Municipality of Anchorage, the LOI/MOU writes itself.

Three Questions to Open · The Yeses
01
Has the Municipality of Anchorage identified rural manufacturing development and waste cost reduction as priorities in its economic development strategy?
YES
the Municipality of Anchorage — Alaska's largest city at ~289,600 residents (US Census 2024) — owns its entire disposal system and faces a rising cost trajectory: gate rates rose from $60.00/ton (ARL, 2019) to $95.36/ton (2026), and the Assembly is weighing a mass-burn incinerator whose capital cost is not yet determined. Advanced circular manufacturing converts a cost liability into a job-creating manufacturing asset — ~100 direct FTE at Phase Initial, ~300 at Phase Expanded.
02
Would the Municipality of Anchorage welcome a 30-year Circular Royalty™ stream beginning 13 months after corresponding Beneficiation Fee payment?
YES
At 400 TPD Phase Initial, the Circular Royalty™ reaches ~$18.1M/yr by Year 2 (146,000 TPY × $120.00/ton). At Phase Expanded (1,200 TPD), ~$54.3M/yr. Both are paid gross and independently of the Beneficiation Fee (TMC Fee). Against a municipal utility whose landfill disposal-fee revenue was $26.4M in 2024, a 30-year royalty stream at this scale is a structural fiscal transformation. ILLUSTRATIVE.
03
Does the Municipality of Anchorage face a rising disposal-cost trajectory and a large capital fork that conventional infrastructure procurement resolves only by spending public money?
YES
Rural Alaska counties lack the population base to negotiate competitive landfill rates or finance independent waste infrastructure. Regional facility dependency means cost exposure without control. The model requires no County CapEx — Carbotura finances, owns and operates. the Municipality of Anchorage contributes access, not capital.
Three yeses. One follow-up.
If the answer to all three is yes — and it always is — the only remaining question is why the LOI/MOU has not been signed. The three questions below make that silence impossible to maintain.
Three Questions to Close · The Consequences
04
What competing circular economy or advanced processing agreement has the Municipality of Anchorage executed?
NONE
No ACM alternative exists for rural Central Alaska. No competing offer combines zero-County-CapEx, manufacturing-grade employment, and a 30-year royalty return at Anchorage's scale. The proposition is open — but rural communities move slowly, and the first county to execute locks the feedstock allocation.
05
Is Anchorage's current disposal cost trajectory manageable without a processing partner that finances, owns and operates the facility?
NO
Regional landfill tipping fees rise consistently. Rural counties have no rate leverage. No royalty return offsets disposal costs under the status quo. The alternative is not a stable cost — it is a rising one with no ceiling and no revenue hedge.
06
How long does it take to commission ACM in the Municipality of Anchorage after the LOI/MOU is executed?
~24 MONTHS
Phase Initial Commercial Operating Date is T0 + 24 months (norm). Deployment runs 12–24 months from permit issuance to commercial operation. Alaska permitting and site confirmation run in parallel with early deployment stages. First Circular Royalty™ payment begins 13 months after first delivery — but material commissioning itself completes at ~24 months.
Execute the LOI/MOU → Q3 2026 deadline · Read the Brief
Programme Overview · General Audience

What Adopting Carbotura Changes →↗

Programme-level explainer: the CSA (Circular Royalty™) plus the Exogenesis™ bonus, fiscal timeline, State A vs State B delta, and the Regulatory Predicate Transition — the dewaste pathway off waste-domain law onto manufacturing law. Applies to every community.

Learn about the programme →↗