Starting in Canada. Built for the world. Aspen Innovation Park is a Canadian agent for Carbotura, Inc., bringing Advanced Circular Manufacturing to municipalities across Canada and beyond. ACM is not waste management. It is not recycling. It is not incineration. It is advanced manufacturing using secondary material feedstocks to produce high-value RevCon manufactured materials.
◆ Deployments advancing in Canada, the United States, and Europe
◆ No territorial restrictions
◆ Mess to Market
Co-Founder
Randall Johnson
Aspen Innovation Park Inc.
Co-Founder
John Kindrachuk
Aspen Innovation Park Inc.
Canadian Agent for
Carbotura, Inc.
Advanced Circular Manufacturing
Website
aspeninnovationpark.com
randall@aspeninnovationpark.ca
◆ ACM Is Not Waste Management · Not Recycling · Not Incineration · It Is Advanced Manufacturing◆ Near-Zero Landfill · Near-Zero Emissions · Zero Public Capital · PFAS Permanently Destroyed◆ Circular Offtake Agreement · 120% Royalty from Month 13 · Growing Annually for 30 Years◆ Deployments Advancing: Canada · United States · Europe · Mess to Market◆ ACM Is Not Waste Management · Not Recycling · Not Incineration · It Is Advanced Manufacturing◆ Near-Zero Landfill · Near-Zero Emissions · Zero Public Capital · PFAS Permanently Destroyed◆ Circular Offtake Agreement · 120% Royalty from Month 13 · Growing Annually for 30 Years◆ Deployments Advancing: Canada · United States · Europe · Mess to Market
Select Your Province
ACM Across Canada
Advanced Circular Manufacturing is advancing in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Select your province to explore the specific opportunity, urgency, and contact for your region.
Advanced Circular Manufacturing Is Advancing Across Canada
Aspen Innovation Park is bringing ACM to Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Select your province above to explore the specific opportunity, urgency, and contact for your region.
Ontario
Turning Waste Into Wealth
Ontario's landfill capacity will be exhausted province-wide within a decade. The US export dependency faces immediate tariff risk. The provincial recycling framework is being rolled back. Every conventional solution is failing simultaneously. ACM does not depend on any of them.
Toronto Proposal Under Active Review
What ACM Is. And Is Not.
Advanced Circular Manufacturing is not waste management. It is not recycling. It is not waste-to-energy. It is not incineration. ACM is a manufacturing platform that uses secondary material feedstocks (what communities currently call waste) as the raw inputs for high-value manufactured products. The feedstock classification is manufacturing, not disposal. The facility is a factory, not a treatment plant.
The Crisis
2035
Green Lane Capacity
Toronto's primary landfill reaches capacity. No approved replacement. REOI closed June 2025 with zero responses. Planning takes 10 or more years. The window is already closed for conventional solutions.
The Proposal
$42M+
Year 1 Projected Benefit
Unsolicited proposal submitted to the City of Toronto Solid Waste Management division in September 2025. Projected Year 1 financial benefit of $42 to $54M. Currently under active review.
The Scale
8-9M
Southern Ontario Population
A comparable corridor deployment produces a modelled 30-year fiscal delta of +$863 to $888M CAD for 323,000 people. Southern Ontario generates waste at 10 to 15 times that volume with significantly higher disposal costs.
Why Now
Ontario sends one-third of its waste to three American states. If US borders close to Canadian waste, the province faces an immediate crisis with no infrastructure to manage it. The blue-bin changes are pushing more waste back to municipalities at exactly the moment landfill capacity is running out. The government does not know what it wants to do. ACM does not depend on the government getting it right.
Technology
Microwave Catalytic Reforming
Anoxic, oxygen-free, sub-atmospheric. Mechanistically incompatible with combustion. All streams accepted, no sorting required.
PFAS
Permanently Destroyed
Forever chemicals broken apart at the molecular level in an oxygen-free environment. Not buried. Not emitted. Permanently destroyed.
Jobs
120 to 145 Per Module
Skilled manufacturing roles per 100 TPD module. Operators, technicians, materials scientists, engineers. Manufacturing careers, not logistics roles.
Capital
Zero Public Cost
Carbotura designs, finances, builds, owns, and operates the ACM facility entirely. The community bears zero capital expenditure.
The Commercial Structure
Circular Offtake Agreement
Your community pays Carbotura a Total Material Conversion Fee of $100 CAD per tonne, escalating 2.5% annually. Beginning in Month 13, Carbotura pays your community a Circular Royalty at 120% of Year 1 TMC Fee per tonne, increasing by 1 percentage point per year for the full 30-year term. From Year 2 onward the Circular Royalty structurally exceeds the TMC Fee per tonne by design, every year, growing to +$90.81 CAD per tonne at Year 30.
120%+
Circular Royalty from Month 13. Exceeds TMC Fee from Year 2.
$0
Community capital expenditure. Carbotura owns and finances entirely.
30 yrs
COA term. Royalty grows every year for 30 years.
+$90.81
Net per tonne surplus at Year 30. By design.
The Single Required Action
Authorise a Community Feasibility Study
Three months. Confirms feedstock volumes, disposal cost baseline, site parameters, and COA terms. Does not commit your community to COA execution. Costs nothing to initiate. Preserves all optionality.
✓ Confirms feedstock volumes✓ Confirms disposal cost baseline✓ Confirms site parameters✓ Finalises COA terms✓ Three months to complete✓ No commitment to COA execution✓ Zero cost to initiate
Saskatchewan is where Aspen Innovation Park's first Canadian ACM deployment is advancing. The province faces a documented landfill capacity crisis with confirmed end-of-life timelines, escalating disposal costs, and no approved conventional alternative. ACM resolves that crisis at zero public capital cost while generating community revenue for 30 years.
The first Canadian ACM deployment does not just solve a Saskatchewan waste problem. It establishes the model for every municipality in Canada that is facing the same crisis. When Saskatchewan moves, the national rollout begins. Communities across Ontario, Alberta, and beyond are watching.
The Crisis
~2030
Landfill End of Life
The primary landfill serving the corridor reaches capacity by approximately 2030. No approved replacement site exists. The Ministry of Environment has declined site expansion. The $133M replacement capital commitment remains unresolved.
The Alternative
$133M
Avoidable Capital
The commissioned concept design for a replacement landfill carries a $133M CAD price tag for a 75-year facility. The Circular Offtake Agreement eliminates that commitment entirely. Zero public capital. All environmental liability transfers to Carbotura.
The Return
+$185M
30-Year Net Position
State B produces a cumulative net fiscal position of approximately +$185 to $210M CAD over 30 years against State A's approximately -$678M trajectory including avoidable landfill capital. The 30-year delta is approximately +$863 to $888M CAD.
The Decision Window
The window to avoid the $133M landfill capital commitment closes the moment Saskatchewan City Council formally authorises procurement. That procurement authorisation has not occurred as of the date of this site. The opportunity to eliminate the commitment entirely remains open. The single required action is authorising the Community Feasibility Study. Three months. No commitment to COA execution. All optionality preserved.
The Commercial Structure
Circular Offtake Agreement
The same COA structure applies across all Canadian deployments. TMC Fee of $100 CAD per tonne escalating 2.5% annually. Circular Royalty commencing Month 13 at 120% of Year 1 TMC Fee, increasing 1 percentage point per year. Net positive from Year 2 by design. Zero community capital expenditure. All environmental liability transfers to Carbotura.
120%+
Circular Royalty from Month 13
$0
Community capital expenditure
T0+24
Phase Initial commercial operations date
30 yrs
COA term with growing annual royalty
The Single Required Action
Authorise the Community Feasibility Study
The Community Feasibility Study confirms feedstock volumes, Full Weighted Disposal Cost, site parameters, and COA terms. It takes three months. It does not commit the community to COA execution. It preserves all optionality while producing the data required to execute.
✓ Three months to complete✓ No commitment to COA execution✓ Zero cost to initiate✓ All optionality preserved
Alberta generates significant municipal and industrial waste volumes across Calgary, Edmonton, and the broader provincial corridor. Advanced Circular Manufacturing converts that feedstock into high-value RevCon manufactured materials including graphite, graphene, hydrogen, recovered metals, and clean water. The ACM model aligns with Alberta's private sector leadership culture, manufacturing job creation priorities, and critical minerals supply chain ambitions.
Alberta Engagement Active
ACM Is Manufacturing. Not Waste Management.
Advanced Circular Manufacturing produces anode grade graphite for EV battery supply chains, graphene for advanced materials applications, hydrogen as a clean energy vector, recovered metals, and clean water. The feedstock happens to be what communities currently call waste. The output is high-value manufactured product sold in global markets. This is an advanced manufacturing investment story, not a waste management story.
Calgary
~1,300
Tonnes Per Day
Calgary generates approximately 1,300 TPD of municipal waste. At the standard COA commission structure, a Calgary deployment represents a significant community revenue opportunity over 30 years with zero public capital required.
Edmonton
~900
Tonnes Per Day
Edmonton generates approximately 900 TPD. The city has been investing in waste-to-value infrastructure and has the industrial land, rail access, and workforce to support an ACM deployment at scale.
Critical Minerals
9,000+
Tonnes Graphite Per Month
At full operation, an ACM facility produces over 9,000 tonnes per month of anode grade graphite alongside graphene, hydrogen, and recovered metals. Alberta's energy transition ambitions align directly with these RevCon output streams.
The Alberta Opportunity
Alberta's landfill capacity constraints are building. The province's private sector leadership culture and minimal red tape framework make it an ideal ACM deployment environment. The critical minerals output from ACM directly supports Alberta's energy transition strategy. Graphite and graphene for battery manufacturing. Hydrogen for clean energy applications. Recovered metals for industrial supply chains. The feedstock is already being generated. The question is whether it gets buried or converted.
The Commercial Structure
Circular Offtake Agreement
The same COA structure applies across all Canadian deployments. TMC Fee of $100 CAD per tonne escalating 2.5% annually. Circular Royalty commencing Month 13 at 120% of Year 1 TMC Fee, increasing 1 percentage point per year for the full 30-year term. Net positive from Year 2 by design. Zero community capital expenditure. All environmental liability transfers to Carbotura.
120%+
Circular Royalty from Month 13
$0
Community capital expenditure
30 yrs
COA term with growing annual royalty
145
Direct manufacturing jobs per 100 TPD module
The Single Required Action
Authorise a Community Feasibility Study
Three months. Confirms feedstock volumes, disposal cost baseline, site parameters, and COA terms. Does not commit your community to COA execution. Costs nothing to initiate. Preserves all optionality. Contact Barry Reid, Alberta Agent, to initiate.
✓ Three months to complete✓ No commitment to COA execution✓ Zero cost to initiate✓ All optionality preserved