Catalyx One — Pacific waste-to-energy & fuel platform

The problem

A waste crisis that starts on land and ends in the ocean.

Across the Pacific, waste is mismanaged at scale. Open dump sites overflow, and with few lined facilities, plastic flows through rivers and coastlines into the sea. Meanwhile island grids run on expensive imported diesel — among the costliest electricity anywhere.

135 t

enters Fiji's marine environment every day via rivers and outfalls

~10%

of Honiara's daily waste washes directly into the ocean

<1.3%

of the world's mismanaged plastic comes from the Pacific — yet it is among the most affected

Where it ends up

This is what the plastic does once it reaches the sea.

It doesn't disappear. It chokes seabirds, fills the stomachs of turtles and fish, and breaks down into microplastics that move up the food chain — back onto the plate. The Pacific lives from this ocean.

A sea turtle swimming among floating plastic bags — Turtles mistake drifting plastic bags for jellyfish.

A seabird standing on a beach littered with plastic debris — Seabirds nest and feed amid washed-up plastic.

Egrets wading through a shoreline thick with plastic waste — Shorelines and feeding grounds, smothered.

A dead albatross, its stomach full of ingested plastic — The end point: a stomach full of plastic.

70%

of deep-sea fish have eaten plastic

1 in 4

fish sold at market contain plastic

100%

of this is preventable — if the waste is collected before it reaches the water

The cheapest place to stop ocean plastic is on land, before it ever floats.

The platform

One platform. Four outputs. Nothing buried.

Catalyx One takes mixed municipal waste — delivered unsorted — and turns every fraction into something useful.

Clean electricity

Baseload power that directly displaces diesel grid generation — the dominant and most expensive power source across Pacific islands.

Domestic diesel

Waste plastic converted into high-grade diesel through catalytic conversion — no refining — for transport, logistics and industry.

Community income

Paid per kilogram, direct to households, with no sorting required — formalising work that informal waste collectors already do.

Zero landfill

Every fraction has a destination — fuel, electricity, recovered metals, aggregate, or safe neutralisation. Nothing is buried.

How it works

Every fraction has a destination — six streams, one platform.

Wet organics & food waste

Anaerobic digestion → biogas → baseload electricity, plus digestate compost

Dry organics, paper, textiles, wood

Shredded and pelletised into RDF → combustion → baseload electricity

Plastics

ACTD catalytic conversion → high-grade domestic diesel, usable immediately

Metals, glass & inerts

Washed and recovered → commodities, aggregate & road base

E-waste

Shredded and run back through MSW sorting → plastics to diesel, metals to recycling

Hazardous waste

High-temperature gasification → fully inert, safe slag

Closed loop: organic-rich wash water from the glass & inerts stream feeds the AD digesters alongside food waste — water and biology working twice.

No source separation required · No experimental technology

Legacy site remediation

Mining the past to clean the future.

Catalyx One doesn't just process incoming waste — it mines existing dump sites alongside it. Buried plastic, food waste and recoverables feed back through the same platform. Land that has been leaking into rivers and oceans for decades is progressively reclaimed.

The same dump site after waste mining — cleared, reclaimed land with hills behind

An overflowing open dump site, plastic and waste to the horizon

Before · leaking dump After · reclaimed land Drag to clean it up

More feedstock

Legacy plastic recovered from dump sites adds to diesel output above the base intake.

Microplastics removed

Buried plastic is captured and converted before it fragments further into soil, groundwater and the sea.

Leachate stopped

As waste mass is removed, leachate generation and methane release stop at the source — not managed downstream.

Land returned

Reclaimed sites can be returned to productive community use — a cleaner country, not just cleaner inputs.

The part no one else does

Plastic doesn't collect itself. People do.

Every waste-to-energy plan assumes the waste simply arrives. It doesn't. In the Pacific, collection is the missing link — and the reason plastic keeps reaching the ocean. Catalyx One closes that gap by paying communities, directly, to bring it in.

We pay per kilogram, straight to households, with no sorting required. That single decision turns waste from a burden into an income — and turns thousands of people into a collection network no truck fleet could ever match.

A village street with a drainage channel choked with plastic bottles, packets and tyres, residents walking past

01 · Collect

It starts at the water's edge.

The channel that runs through the village carries plastic straight to the sea. This is where the work begins — households are paid by the kilo for every bag they gather from it.

Villagers bringing bags of collected plastic to a Catalyx One waste-to-energy incentive program collection point beside a clean channel, being paid for what they bring

02 · Clear

The waterway runs clean again.

Bag by bag, the community brings what it collects to the local Catalyx One point — paid on the spot, no sorting required — and the channel that carried plastic out to sea runs clear.

A thriving village with a clean waterway, community members going about daily life, fresh produce in baskets, and a Catalyx One facility integrated into the neighborhood

03 · Thrive

The community prospers.

Infrastructure becomes prosperity. Clean water returns, income flows steadily, and the facility that powers it all sits quietly alongside homes, schools, and markets — serving the people who made it possible.

Paid per kilogram

Income lands directly with households — a real, recurring reason to gather plastic instead of burning or dumping it.

No sorting required

People bring waste exactly as it is. The platform does the separation. Participation has no barrier to entry.

Dignity for existing workers

Informal waste-pickers already do this work, unseen and unsafe. We formalise it — with fair pay, safety and recognition.

Where we build

Self-contained deployments, adapted to each nation.

Each hub is complete in its own right and separately financed — the same platform, tuned to local waste, energy costs and geography, with collection networks reaching outer islands.

Deployment · Fiji

Viti Levu

Processing the island's municipal waste into electricity and domestic diesel, with legacy dump-site remediation.

Electricity + Diesel

5.6 MW

Electricity

14.7M L/yr

Diesel

305K t

CO₂/yr

Deployment · PNG

Port Moresby

A baseload and fuel hub for the National Capital District, formalising informal waste workers at scale.

Electricity + Diesel

6.7 MW

Electricity

~22M L/yr

Diesel

375K t

CO₂/yr

Deployment · Solomon Is.

Honiara

Designed electricity-led — plastic is directed to the RDF/electricity stream, because the country's tariff makes power the higher-value output.

Electricity-only (by design)

2–3 MW

Electricity

100%

Plastic captured

30–39 mo

To operation

Pacific scope

Built to clean an ocean — not just a country.

Three deployments are the start. The Pacific's plastic and diesel problems span every island grid and every coastline, and meaningful cleanup only works at regional scale. The platform is designed to extend.

Active deployment

Fiji

Viti Levu hub with outer-island marine logistics.

Active deployment

Papua New Guinea

Port Moresby and broader NCD.

Active deployment

Solomon Islands

Honiara and provincial centres.

Next tier

Vanuatu

Same diesel-and-waste pressures, smaller scale.

Next tier

Samoa

Upolu-concentrated waste and tourism load.

Next tier

Tonga

Near-total diesel dependence, Tongatapu hub.

The Pacific contributes less than 1.3% of the world's mismanaged plastic — yet it is among the most affected. Cleaning the ocean meaningfully means doing the work at the regional scale of the problem.

Why it stands up

Proven technology. Purpose-built integration.

Catalyx One's contribution is the integrated facility design — not an experimental concept. Every major component is commercially deployed and supplier-quoted.

01 Commercially proven

Every major component is in commercial operation somewhere in the world today. No lab concepts, no first-of-a-kind risk on core technology.

02 Sized for the country

Designed around each nation's actual waste composition and realistic throughput — processing local waste, not imported volumes.

03 No government capital

Financed through grant and concessional development finance. Host governments are asked for endorsement and access, not money.

04 Built for Pacific conditions

Containerised, modular, and designed for island logistics, climate exposure and remote operation from the ground up.

The Pacific's waste, turned into power, fuel, and cleaner oceans.

A waste crisis that starts on land and ends in the ocean.

This is what the plastic does once it reaches the sea.

One platform. Four outputs. Nothing buried.

Clean electricity

Domestic diesel

Community income

Zero landfill

Every fraction has a destination — six streams, one platform.

Mining the past to clean the future.

More feedstock

Microplastics removed

Leachate stopped

Land returned

Plastic doesn't collect itself. People do.

It starts at the water's edge.

The waterway runs clean again.

The community prospers.

Paid per kilogram

No sorting required

Dignity for existing workers

Self-contained deployments, adapted to each nation.

Viti Levu

Port Moresby

Honiara

Built to clean an ocean — not just a country.

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu

Samoa

Tonga

What three deployments deliver, every year.

Proven technology. Purpose-built integration.

01 Commercially proven

02 Sized for the country

03 No government capital

04 Built for Pacific conditions

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