Your county.
One bin. Near-zero landfill.

You put everything in one container at the curb — no sorting, no separating, no second bin for recyclables. The factory sorts everything inside its facility. Paper, plastic, metal, organic material, electronics, batteries: all accepted. You do nothing differently.

No more rinsing containers. No more sorting paper from plastic. No more separate yard trim piles or recycling bins. Montgomery County households are designed to save 15–30 minutes per week by eliminating the sorting step entirely. Over a year, that is more than 20 hours per household returned.

Starting from Year 2, Montgomery County receives a contractual royalty from Carbotura. Over 30 years at full scale, that royalty is designed to reach over $735 million paid back to the county — money that can reduce service costs, fund schools, or lower household charges over time.

The factory brings 100 or more skilled manufacturing jobs to Montgomery County in its first phase — roles in operations, engineering, logistics, and maintenance. These are manufacturing positions, not temporary construction jobs. At full scale, that number grows to 500 or more direct positions, plus hundreds of supporting roles in the region.

The Dickerson incinerator produces emissions from burning materials. The Shady Grove Transfer Station has documented odour. When the factory converts materials instead, there is no combustion, no ash, and no open transfer yard smell. The facility is fully enclosed with sealed airlocks. Designed for near-zero atmospheric discharge.

The manufacturing process produces ultrapure water as a by-product — designed to generate enough for about 870 households per day at the first phase of operation. This is water recovered from what your household puts out, cleaned to high purity, and available for industrial or municipal use rather than treated and discharged.

The factory is designed to generate its own energy from the manufacturing process and operate without drawing from the grid under normal conditions. The conversion process produces internal energy that powers the facility itself. No grid strain. No carbon footprint from power draw.

At the first phase of operation (400 tons per day), the factory is designed to remove the equivalent of over 120,000 cars from the road every single day — by replacing incineration with a carbon-negative manufacturing process. At full scale across all material streams, that figure grows to the equivalent of over 600,000 cars per day.

PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, often called "forever chemicals" — are present in many household materials and cannot be fully destroyed by incineration. The factory uses a high-temperature, oxygen-free process that is designed to permanently break down PFAS molecules. They are not recycled, not deposited, and not released into the environment.

Materials are compacted and sealed before transport — no open-top trucks, no loose debris, no windblown material on residential streets. The collection service is fully enclosed. The factory is located in an industrial zone — not in a residential neighbourhood — so truck movements are routed through industrial corridors, not your street.

Today, about 26% of what the Dickerson facility processes becomes ash — then shipped by rail to a landfill in Brunswick County, Virginia. The factory produces no ash from converted materials. That ash stream is eliminated entirely for everything the factory processes. The out-of-county disposal dependency ends.

The factory is a clean, enclosed manufacturing facility in an industrial zone — not a landfill, not an open transfer yard, not a combustion plant with visible stacks. Industrial zones with active, modern manufacturing facilities typically support neighbourhood property values better than ageing disposal infrastructure with visible emissions and odour.