Nagpur generates 1,300 tonnes of materials every day. A new manufacturing facility converts what's buried today into products — and pays Nagpur back for it.
Eight real differences — starting when the facility opens.
The same 1,300 tonnes per day. Two very different outcomes.
तेच १,३०० टन प्रतिदिन. दोन अत्यंत भिन्न परिणाम.
Every rupee of Circular Royalty that flows to NMC is a rupee available for the city's residents.
NMC ला वाहणाऱ्या परिपत्रक रॉयल्टीचा प्रत्येक रुपया हा शहराच्या रहिवाशांसाठी उपलब्ध रुपया आहे.
The Circular Royalty is a simple idea: what your city puts in, Carbotura converts into products — and a share of that value flows back to Nagpur every month.
परिपत्रक रॉयल्टी एक साधी कल्पना आहे: तुमचे शहर जे आत टाकते, कार्बोटुरा उत्पादनांमध्ये रूपांतरित करते — आणि त्या मूल्याचा एक भाग दर महिन्याला नागपूरला परत येतो.
The factory would be built at Bhandewadi — where materials already arrive every day.
कारखाना भांडेवाडी येथे बांधला जाईल — जिथे सामग्री आधीच दररोज येते.
Yes — completely. Food scraps, plastics, packaging, old clothes, ceramics, everything. The factory does the sorting inside its sealed facility. From a resident's perspective, there is no separation required — one bin, one collection, done. The enclosed collection vehicle picks up everything together, so there is no change to your routine except that you no longer have to think about what goes where.
Bhandewadi has produced odour, flies, and smoke from landfill fires for decades — that is the current situation. The ACM factory is the opposite: it is a fully enclosed building, airlocked, with materials arriving in sealed vehicles and processed in oxygen-free chambers. There is no burning, no open-air decomposition, and no atmospheric discharge by design. The facility is designed to have almost no smell and no visible emissions. Surrounding communities should see an improvement, not a worsening.
The factory costs Nagpur residents nothing to build. No public borrowing, no construction debt, no tax increase. Carbotura's project company funds and builds the entire facility — NMC pays a manufacturing service fee per tonne of materials, and from 13 months after opening, Carbotura pays NMC a Circular Royalty that exceeds that fee. By Year 2, NMC is in a net positive position — receiving more back than it pays. That royalty flows into NMC's treasury and is available for services to residents.
The ACM process is capable of handling every material type Nagpur generates. This includes plastics of all types, organics, textiles, mixed packaging, rubber, and non-hazardous residuals of all kinds. You do not need a separate drop-off for these. Standard collection takes them all. For genuinely hazardous materials (like medical sharps or industrial chemicals), separate handling requirements remain in place as they are today — but for everything a typical household produces, one bin is enough.
It is completely different. Incineration burns materials with oxygen — it produces ash, CO₂, and air emissions. Everything that goes in is destroyed. ACM's process — Microwave Catalytic Reforming — operates in an oxygen-free, sealed chamber. There is no flame, no burning, and no combustion. Instead of destroying materials with heat, it uses microwave energy in an oxygen-free environment to break molecular bonds, reforming materials into new manufactured products — graphite, mineral fractions, and other goods.
A simple way to think about it: incineration turns materials into gases and ash that you cannot use. ACM turns materials into solid manufactured products that factories around the world want to buy.
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 has filed 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.