Your waste materials are manufacturing feedstock. Aspen Innovation Park is a Canadian agent for Carbotura, Inc. Carbotura replaces disposal. Disposal companies become Feedstock Haulers. Communities earn an increasing Circular Royalty™ every month for 30 years. We build the factory. You make money on your feedstock.
◆ Deployments advancing in Canada, the United States, and Europe
◆ No territorial restrictions
◆ Every city on Earth is the mine
◆ Everything to Everything
Co-Founder
Randall Johnson
Aspen Innovation Park Inc.
Co-Founder
John Kindrachuk
Aspen Innovation Park Inc.
Canadian Agent for
Carbotura, Inc.
Advanced Circular Manufacturing
Co-Founder Contacts
aspeninnovationpark.com
randall@aspeninnovationpark.ca | 306-747-8220
john@aspeninnovationpark.ca | 306-549-7623
◆ Your Waste Materials Are Manufacturing Feedstock · Disposal Companies Become Feedstock Haulers · Communities Earn a Circular Royalty™◆ Near-Zero Landfill · Near-Zero Emissions · Zero Public Capital · PFAS Permanently Destroyed◆ Circular Supply Agreement · 120% Royalty from Month 13 · Growing Annually for 30 Years◆ Every City on Earth Is the Mine · $12.4 Trillion in Raw Materials Discarded Annually · Everything to Everything◆ Your Waste Materials Are Manufacturing Feedstock · Disposal Companies Become Feedstock Haulers · Communities Earn a Circular Royalty™◆ Near-Zero Landfill · Near-Zero Emissions · Zero Public Capital · PFAS Permanently Destroyed◆ Circular Supply Agreement · 120% Royalty from Month 13 · Growing Annually for 30 Years◆ Every City on Earth Is the Mine · $12.4 Trillion in Raw Materials Discarded Annually · Everything to Everything
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. It is not gasification or pyrolysis. Carbotura's Recyclotron uses Microwave Catalytic Reforming — a molecular electromagnetic activation process operating in an anoxic, oxygen-free environment without combustion. Every module is built from established, commercial-grade technologies — no experimental or first-of-a-kind components. One integrated, warranted system. Total Material Conversion by design. Each Regenesis™ Center is fully self-powered and grid-independent generating 857 MWh daily via hydrogen PEM fuel cells. No grid exposure. No energy cost risk to the community.
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. And for the first time, every municipality that signs a CSA stops paying to dispose of its materials and starts getting paid for them. A liability on the city's books becomes a revenue stream. That is not philanthropy. It comes out of the chemistry.
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 Regenesis Center entirely. The community bears zero capital expenditure.
The Commercial Structure
Circular Supply 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
Request a Community Study
Three months. Confirms feedstock volumes, disposal cost baseline, site parameters, and CSA terms. Does not commit your community to CSA execution. Costs nothing to initiate. Preserves all optionality.
✓ Confirms feedstock volumes✓ Confirms disposal cost baseline✓ Confirms site parameters✓ Finalises CSA terms✓ Three months to complete✓ No commitment to CSA execution✓ Zero cost to initiate
Use the financial calculator to see Halton, Hamilton, Toronto or any Ontario municipality's specific numbers: carbotura.com/communities
Recognition and Awards
2026 Earth Shot Award Nomination
Carbotura has been nominated for the 2026 Earth Shot Prize, Prince William's global environmental award recognizing bold solutions to the world's greatest environmental challenges.
World's Top 50 Most Innovative Companies — 2021 and 2023
Selected from 130+ countries in both 2021 and 2023. Two separate years of recognition as one of the world's most innovative new companies.
Smart Cities Innovation Achievement Award — Plug and Play, Orlando 2026
Selected from over 1,000 reviewed companies in Batch 5. Access to 550+ Fortune 1000 corporate partners and 100,000+ startups across 50+ global locations.
Tyler Wood featured by Top Tier Impact
Global waste destroys nearly $3 trillion in material value every year. Carbotura converts that loss into sovereign-backed supply chains, domestic manufacturing capacity, and scalable economics built for industrial deployment.
Ontario Agent
Christine Brunsden
Ontario Agent, Aspen Innovation Park Canadian Agent, Carbotura, Inc. Burlington, Ontario
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 signs, it creates the equivalent of a mine. A 30-year take-or-pay contract with a sovereign counterparty is a certified reserve — verified under the same standard the mining and oil and gas industries use globally. A signature is a balance sheet event. When Saskatchewan moves, the national rollout begins.
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 Supply 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 Study. Three months. No commitment to CSA execution. All optionality preserved.
The Commercial Structure
Circular Supply 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 Study
The Community Study confirms feedstock volumes, Full Weighted Disposal Cost, site parameters, and CSA terms. It takes three months. It does not commit the community to CSA execution. It preserves all optionality while producing the data required to execute.
✓ Three months to complete✓ No commitment to CSA 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
This Is Not a Cleantech Story.
It is a national security manufacturing platform with an environmental co-benefit. More than 70% of synthetic graphite and more than 80% of rare earths come from China. Every Regenesis Center commissioned produces federally classified strategic materials from domestic feedstock. The same material that municipalities currently pay to dispose of. Alberta's energy transition ambitions and critical minerals strategy align directly with every tonne converted.
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 Regenesis Center 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 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. And for Alberta's existing waste hauling and logistics companies: legacy hauling roles transition into Feedstock Hauler roles within the Circular Advantage program. The logistics function remains. The destination, purpose, and economic model change entirely.
The Commercial Structure
Circular Supply 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
Request a Community Study
Three months. Confirms feedstock volumes, disposal cost baseline, site parameters, and CSA terms. Does not commit your community to CSA execution. Costs nothing to initiate. Preserves all optionality. Contact Barry Reid, Alberta Agent, to initiate.
✓ Three months to complete✓ No commitment to CSA execution✓ Zero cost to initiate✓ All optionality preserved