CARBOTURACommunity Benefits · Alachua County, Florida
Alachua County, Florida · For Every Resident
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Alachua County already recycles more than almost anywhere in Florida. Here is what happens to everything that is left — and what changes if it stops leaving the county.
No sorting. No separation. One collection. Everything converted.
Community Benefits · 5 min read · DOC 06 OF 06
What this document is
A plain-language explainer for residents of Gainesville, Alachua, Newberry, High Springs and the unincorporated county: what the current system does, and what an Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility would change.
Three things this document says
Nothing changes at your kerb. You already separate your recycling; that keeps working exactly as it does now.
What is left stops being trucked forty miles to a landfill in another county, and becomes manufactured products instead. Nothing is burned.
A royalty comes back to the County for at least thirty years, on every ton delivered.
Here is what Advanced Circular Manufacturing does for residents, in plain terms.
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Your bin does not change
You separate your recycling the same way you do today. Alachua already has one of the best recycling rates in Florida and none of that changes. This is about what is left over afterwards.
No change at the kerb
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The trucks stop going to Raiford
Today every ton is loaded at the Leveda Brown transfer station and driven about forty miles to a landfill in Union County. A facility beside the transfer station means that haul largely stops.
Fewer road miles
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It becomes products, not ash
There is no burning. In a sealed, oxygen-free chamber the material is broken into its elemental constituents and reformed into graphite, graphene compounds, recovered metals, clean industrial gases and ultra-pure water.
No combustion
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A royalty comes back
Carbotura pays the County a royalty on every ton delivered, for at least thirty years. It starts above what the County pays to have the material processed and rises every year.
30-year minimum
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Local manufacturing jobs
Around 100 direct roles at the first phase — process operation, maintenance, quality and logistics. County officials have said the Eco Industrial Park as a whole could support more than 500 jobs.
~100 direct roles
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The county keeps its own capacity
Alachua would no longer depend on a contract with another county’s landfill, and would not need to fund and permit a new landfill of its own to replace it.
No new landfill needed
Today vs. With the Factory
What Changes — Side by Side
🔴 Today
✗Everything left after recycling goes to one transfer station on NE 63rd Avenue.
✗It is compacted and trucked about forty miles to a landfill in Raiford.
✗The County pays for the transfer station, the haul, and the gate at the far end.
✗That agreement ends on 31 December 2028, and the rate then rises by more than half.
✗The material is buried, and the County gets nothing back from it.
🟢 With the Factory
✓Everything left after recycling goes to the same transfer station.
✓It moves next door, to a factory on land the County has already set aside.
✓It is broken down without burning and reformed into manufactured products.
✓The County pays a fee to have it processed, and receives a royalty on every ton.
✓The royalty runs for at least thirty years and rises every year.
How the Money Works
The Circular Royalty™ — Explained Simply
This is not a subsidy. It is not a discount. Here is how Alachua County, Florida earns money back from the materials it supplies.
Your materials are collected
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The factory converts them into manufactured products
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Products are sold in global markets
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Royalty paid back to Alachua County, Florida
What the Circular Royalty™ is — in plain terms
The County pays a Beneficiation Fee to have its residual processed, and separately receives a Circular Royalty™ on the same tonnage. These are two different payments in two different directions, and they are reported separately rather than combined into one number. Being straight about it: the fee is higher than what the County pays at the landfill gate today. The reason the arrangement is worth doing is the royalty, which starts above the fee and grows every year for at least thirty years — and the fact that the County never has to fund a landfill of its own.
Your Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The process runs in a sealed, oxygen-free chamber. Without oxygen nothing can combust. The material is broken into its elemental constituents by heat and energy and then reformed into new materials.
Yes. Nothing changes at the kerb. Alachua’s recycling programme is one of the strongest in Florida and it continues exactly as it is. This concerns the residual that is left afterwards.
On the Alachua County Eco Industrial Park — 31 acres the County has already dedicated immediately behind the Leveda Brown Environmental Park, off NE Waldo Road north of Gainesville Regional Airport.
No. Carbotura finances, builds, owns and operates the facility. The County commits no capital at any phase. The alternative on the table — a new County landfill at Balu Forest — would be funded by the County and take at least five years.
The County has raised the idea of recovering material from the closed cells there and lining them to protect groundwater. Carbotura has an add-on for exactly that kind of legacy material. It would need a proper characterisation study first, and nothing about it has been measured or promised.
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