Your materials. Your state. Your return.

No sorting. No rinsing. No separate bins for paper, plastic, metal, or food. Put everything out in one container — the facility handles separation and conversion inside, not in your kitchen or driveway. Every material type is accepted including items rejected by today's collection service.

Sorting, rinsing, flattening, and scheduling special drop-offs takes the average household 15–30 minutes per week. With one-bin collection, that time comes back to you. No more checking labels. No more separate collection days. No contamination worries.

Rhode Island receives a Circular Royalty™ — a growing cash payment from Carbotura — for 30 years. That money flows back into Rhode Island's budget, over time reducing the disposal costs that feed into your local taxes and service charges. Over 30 years, the total is projected to reach hundreds of millions of dollars back to the state.

The facility is fully enclosed and airlocked — designed to have almost no odour or atmospheric discharge during normal operation. It's a manufacturing plant, not an open dump. No open material piles. No seagulls. No smoke. Designed to a standard you'd expect from any modern industrial facility.

Rhode Island's only active landfill in Johnston is projected to reach capacity around 2046. At full operation, the Carbotura facility diverts 44% of the material currently going there — extending the landfill's life by an estimated 15 or more years. That delays a very expensive problem for every Rhode Island taxpayer.

The conversion process is designed to recover ultrapure water as a manufactured product. At full operation, that's enough clean water for an estimated 24,000 households every single day. This water is recovered from the material itself — not drawn from Rhode Island's water supply.

The factory generates its own electricity from the hydrogen it produces during the conversion process. It doesn't draw power from Rhode Island's grid. It runs independently 24/7 — designed to operate even if the grid goes down. No energy cost passed to the state or to ratepayers.

All collection vehicles are fully enclosed. No open-top loads travelling through residential streets. No loose material, no odours from vehicles, no visual impact on the roads where your family lives and drives. Collection happens on the same schedule you're used to — it just gets cleaner.

The facility creates 360 direct skilled manufacturing jobs at full operation — plus another 1,080 jobs in the supply chain. These are high-wage industrial roles: engineers, operators, technicians. Not sorting jobs, not hauling jobs. Manufacturing roles that stay in Rhode Island for 30 years.

44% of everything Rhode Island generates becomes a manufactured product: battery-grade carbon materials, hydrogen, recovered metals, and more. The factory is designed for near-zero landfill residual — material that goes in becomes product that comes out. Nothing is simply buried and forgotten.

At full operation, the facility is designed to remove the equivalent of about 104,000 cars’ worth of carbon from the atmosphere every year — that's roughly one car per four Rhode Island residents. Over 30 years, the total projected carbon benefit is equivalent to about 14 million tonnes. Rhode Island becomes a net contributor to national climate goals, not just a participant.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are present in many household materials and in the biosolids from Rhode Island's wastewater system. Today, they get buried in the landfill or incinerated at temperatures that may not fully destroy them. The Carbotura process is designed to destroy PFAS permanently — inside a sealed, oxygen-free chamber at extremely high temperatures. No PFAS escapes into the air or water.