Clark County's materials — everything you put out — become manufactured products and return a royalty to your county every year for 30 years.
500 new skilled jobs from day one · Zero public investment requiredWhat an Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility means for residents — what changes at the kerb, what Clark County receives, the jobs created, and the environmental effect.
These are the direct, measurable improvements designed to reach Clark County households and the regional community once the manufacturing facility is operating.
No more separating paper, plastic, glass, and food scraps into different bins. Everything your household generates goes in one collection. The sorting and separation happens inside the manufacturing facility — not on your driveway at 6am. The current collection vehicles already visit your street. Nothing changes for you except the sorting stops.
15–30 minutes returned per weekFor the first time, what Clark County pays in material collection and processing comes back as a royalty — 30 years of payments, growing every year. From Year 2, the county receives more in royalty than it pays in Beneficiation Fees. By Year 30, Clark County is projected to receive over $220 million per year. That money flows into county services, not into a landfill.
$87.6M projected Year 2 royaltyPhase 1 alone creates 500 direct skilled manufacturing jobs in Clark County — paying an average of approximately $65,000–$85,000 per year. These are permanent, local positions in facility operation, quality control, and materials science. A further 1,500 indirect jobs in the surrounding regional economy are associated with a facility of this scale. No manufacturing jobs in Clark County today are created from material collection.
1,500 additional indirect jobsWhen materials are converted in the manufacturing process, one of the outputs is ultrapure water. At full operation, the facility is designed to produce 435,000 gallons of ultrapure water every day — equivalent to roughly 1.3 Olympic swimming pools per day. In a desert region where water scarcity is a growing concern, this is a significant local resource produced without drawing on the Colorado River.
435,000 gal/day water at full operationApex Regional Landfill — 250+ years of expected remaining capacity — produces methane and associated odour as decomposing material accumulates. Every tonne of material diverted to the manufacturing facility is a tonne that does not decompose in the landfill. The manufacturing facility is fully enclosed, with airlocked intake and controlled internal atmosphere. There is no open-air processing. Designed to produce almost no smell or atmospheric discharge.
Enclosed facility · Zero atmospheric dischargeMaterials that go to landfill decompose and release methane — a greenhouse gas many times more potent than CO₂. At full operation, the manufacturing facility is designed to displace carbon emissions equivalent to removing approximately 160,000 cars from Nevada's roads every year. That's not a one-off figure — it compounds every year for three decades. A total of approximately 85 million tonnes of carbon emissions displaced over the life of the agreement.
~160,000 car-equivalents displaced yearlyPFAS — sometimes called "forever chemicals" — are present in many everyday household items including non-stick cookware, food packaging, and water-repellent fabrics. When these materials go to landfill, PFAS accumulate and can leach into groundwater. The Microwave Catalytic Reforming process operates at temperatures above 1,200°C in an oxygen-free chamber — permanently breaking down PFAS compounds at the elemental level. They are not transferred, not buried, not stored. They are permanently eliminated.
Permanently eliminated · Not storedCarbotura finances, builds, owns, and operates the entire manufacturing facility. Clark County pays a Beneficiation Fee (TMC Fee) per tonne of material delivered — a fee that replaces what Clark County already pays for disposal today. There is no public bond, no construction loan, no debt, no capital obligation. If the facility underperforms, the financial risk is Carbotura's. If it overperforms, Clark County's royalty grows faster.
Zero public capital requiredThe conversion process produces synthetic graphite — the same material used in electric vehicle batteries and semiconductors — as well as recovered metals and other manufactured materials. These products are sold on global markets. The revenue from those sales is what funds the Circular Royalty™ paid back to Clark County. Your household materials become globally traded manufactured goods. The royalty you receive is derived from that value chain.
Products: synthetic graphite · recovered metalsThe Circular Royalty™ goes directly into Clark County's treasury. The economic multiplier from 2,000 manufacturing jobs stays in the Las Vegas metro economy. These are separate — and both matter.
It's not magic — it's a contract. Here's the four-step flow, in plain language.
Everything from Clark County households and businesses — all in one bin — delivered to the manufacturing facility.
Inside an oxygen-free microwave chamber, your materials are broken down and reformed into synthetic graphite, recovered metals, and ultrapure water.
Synthetic graphite is used in EV batteries and semiconductors. Recovered metals go into industrial supply chains. These products are sold on global markets at market rates.
A percentage of the manufacturing revenue — growing every year — is paid as a Circular Royalty™ directly to Clark County's treasury. Every year. For 30 years.
This is not a discount. It is not a rebate. It is a contractual royalty derived from the value of what your materials become.
The proposed manufacturing facility is planned for the Apex industrial area of North Las Vegas — about 25 miles from the Strip. Here is how the locations relate to your neighbourhood.
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Apex Industrial Corridor, North Las Vegas. About 25 miles north of downtown Las Vegas. Fully enclosed facility — no open processing, no outdoor material piles.
Apex Regional Landfill — the current destination for Clark County's collected materials. About 2 miles from the proposed factory site.
Republic Services transfer station and sorting facility, North Las Vegas. The same infrastructure that handles collection today would redirect to the factory instead.
Las Vegas Water Reclamation Facility on Flamingo Road. Biosolids from this facility are among the materials that can be processed at the factory — diverting them from current disposal routes.
Yes. All of it — food scraps, packaging, paper, plastic, glass, textiles, garden material. Everything goes in one enclosed collection vehicle and is delivered to the manufacturing facility.
The sorting, separation, and material recovery all happen inside the facility using automated systems designed specifically for mixed material streams. There is no requirement for residents to separate anything. The collection schedule for your street does not change. The only difference is that you stop sorting at home.
Specialist materials — electronics, batteries, bulky items — are handled through the same standard collection service. No separate drop-off required.
The manufacturing facility is fully enclosed. All material intake, processing, and product handling takes place inside a sealed structure with airlocked entry points. There is no open-air material processing — no outdoor piles, no uncovered conveyors.
The internal atmosphere is oxygen-free and sub-atmospheric. The process does not involve combustion, open burning, or any atmospheric venting of process gases. The facility is designed to have almost no smell or discharge.
By contrast, Apex Regional Landfill — the current destination for Clark County's materials — generates methane and associated odour as buried material decomposes. Every tonne of material diverted to the manufacturing facility is a tonne that does not decompose in the open landfill environment.
No. Clark County does not invest any public money in the factory — not a dollar of construction cost, debt, or operating expense. The entire facility is financed, built, owned, and operated by Carbotura.
Clark County pays a Beneficiation Fee (TMC Fee) per tonne of material delivered — a fee that replaces what the county already pays for disposal. In Year 1, the cost structure is restructured, not increased. From Year 2, Clark County receives a Circular Royalty™ that exceeds the Beneficiation Fee.
That money flows into Clark County's general budget.
All material types processable by the facility are accepted through the same standard collection service. This includes items that current systems require separate drop-off for — such as small electronics, packaging with food contamination, and mixed-material products that current recycling systems cannot handle.
The Microwave Catalytic Reforming process handles mixed, contaminated, and composite material streams that conventional material recovery facilities reject. The facility is specifically designed for the complexity of real-world household and commercial material streams.
For genuinely hazardous materials requiring specialist handling — such as large quantities of industrial chemicals — existing county hazardous waste programmes remain in place. These represent a very small fraction of the total material stream.
No. This is fundamentally different from incineration — and the difference matters.
Incineration burns materials using oxygen and high heat. The result is ash, carbon dioxide, and atmospheric emissions. The material is destroyed, not converted. You get heat and electricity — and a pile of ash that still needs to go somewhere.
The Carbotura manufacturing process uses microwave energy in an oxygen-free, sealed chamber at sub-atmospheric pressure. There is no flame, no combustion, and no oxygen. Instead of burning, materials are dissociated into their elemental constituents and reformed into new compounds — synthetic graphite, recovered metals, and ultrapure water. The material is not destroyed. It becomes something else.
The simplest description: a process that breaks materials apart without burning them, in an oxygen-free chamber. The output is manufactured products, not ash and emissions.