What Newport Gains

Carbotura would build an Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility at the Port of Newport. It's a modular factory that takes in materials — food waste, garden waste, biosolids, and similar — and converts them into manufactured products: synthetic graphite, graphene compounds, recovered metals, and ultrapure water. The facility is classed as a manufacturing operation, not a waste plant. Carbotura funds it, builds it, owns it, and runs it. Newport City Council does not invest any money.

No capital investment. No construction debt. No operating costs. Newport's only financial commitment is the Beneficiation Fee — a per-tonne Beneficiation Fee for delivering materials to the facility, set below Newport's current disposal costs. Everything else is Carbotura's responsibility. If the facility underperforms, that's Carbotura's problem, not Newport's.

The Circular Royalty™ is a monthly payment from Carbotura to Newport City Council. It starts 13 months after the facility opens — so there's a first year where Newport pays the Beneficiation Fee but hasn't received any royalty yet (separate transactions; royalty pre-launch). After that, rolling monthly payments begin at a rate of 120% of the original Beneficiation Fee per tonne. The rate goes up by 1 percentage point every year. From Year 2 onward, the per-tonne Royalty Newport receives exceeds the per-tonne Fee it pays (separate transactions per the Separate Transaction Principle), and the spread grows every year until Year 30. The exact monthly amount depends on the Beneficiation Fee, which is confirmed in Term Sheet phase verification.

Yes — designed to be significantly better. Today, Newport's residual materials go to incineration at Cardiff's ERF, which generates CO₂. The ACM manufacturing process is designed for near-zero emissions, near-zero residual, and no discharge. At 100 TPD, the facility is designed to avoid approximately 40,000 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent per year. These are designed-for figures from Carbotura's platform — they'll be independently verified during Term Sheet phase verification stage. Newport's recycling rate is already above 70%, which is excellent. This project handles what's left in a genuinely better way.

Newport's current contract for sending residual waste to the Cardiff Energy Recovery Facility runs until around 2040–41. After that, Newport has no confirmed plan for where its materials go. Building the replacement infrastructure takes time — roughly 10 to 12 years from the start of Term Sheet phase verification to full Phase Expanded operation. That means the decision process needs to start now to ensure Newport has something in place before 2040, not after. The first step — authorising Term Sheet phase verification — doesn't commit Newport to anything. It just opens the door. The longer Newport waits, the less time it has to plan.

Around 35 direct manufacturing jobs in Phase Initial — skilled technical and operational roles at the facility itself. Combined with indirect and supply chain employment, the total impact is estimated at around 123 jobs in Phase Initial, growing to approximately 175 in Phase Expanded (200 TPD). These are permanent, local positions in Newport — not construction or temporary roles. These figures are estimates based on Carbotura's standard 100 TPD facility model; they'll be confirmed during Term Sheet phase verification.

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.