Ibeju-Lekki Corridor, Lagos State · For Every Resident

Your Lekki. Your Neighbourhood.
Your Future.

One factory replaces three closing dumpsites, cleans up the lagoon, creates 945 skilled local jobs, and pays your community back — for 30 years.

No sorting. No separation. One collection. Everything converted.
What This Means for Ibeju-Lekki
1
Collection bin for everything
0
Sorting or separating required
945
New skilled manufacturing jobs
30
Years the community gets paid back
~0
Landfill at full operation
$0
Cost to Lagos State to build it
What Changes in Your Everyday Life

Here is what living near a Carbotura Advanced Circular Manufacturing facility actually means — at home, on your street, and in your neighbourhood.

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One Bin. Everything In.
You put everything from your household into one collection. Organic matter, plastic, paper, metals, textiles — it all goes together. The factory sorts and processes everything on its own. You do not separate. You do not sort. You do not need multiple bins.
Designed to accept every household material
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15–30 Minutes a Week Back
The average Lagos household currently spends 15–30 minutes every week sorting materials, making trips to separate collection points, or managing informal cart-pusher arrangements. With one collection service, that time comes back to you.
15–30 min/week returned to every household
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Clean Water — Produced Locally
The factory produces ultrapure water as part of converting your materials. At full operation, it is designed to produce enough clean water for about 48,600 households every day. Lagos currently produces less than a third of the clean water the city needs. This helps close that gap — within your corridor.
~1.46 million gallons of clean water per day (Phase 1)
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Reliable Power — On-Site Solar
The factory runs on its own large solar field. It does not depend on the national grid for most of its power. At Phase 1, it is designed to export about 15 megawatts of net solar power back into the Free Trade Zone grid — powering thousands of businesses and homes in the corridor that currently have fewer than four hours of electricity per day.
~15 MW net solar power export — Phase 1
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A Cleaner Lagoon
Right now, about 930 tonnes of material enter Lagos Lagoon and the surrounding waterways every day from the Ibeju-Lekki Corridor — not because anyone wants that, but because there is nowhere else for it to go. When the factory opens and the dumpsites close, that stops. The lagoon begins to recover.
931 TPD diverted from lagoon — at Phase 1
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945 Skilled Local Jobs
The factory creates 945 direct manufacturing jobs at full operation — not logistics or collection jobs, but skilled roles in a modern industrial facility. Add the businesses that supply and support the factory, and the total is nearly 2,000 jobs in the corridor. These are jobs that stay in your community for 30 years.
945 direct + 1,890 indirect jobs — at full operation
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No Landfill Smell on Your Street
The Epe landfill is already closed. Olusosun and Solous III are being shut down. When they go and nothing replaces them, the smell gets worse — not better — because materials are dumped informally instead. The factory is a fully enclosed facility, designed with near-zero atmospheric discharge. When it operates, it replaces open dumping with a clean industrial building.
Enclosed facility · designed near-zero atmospheric discharge
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Lower Costs Over Time
The Circular Royalty paid back to Lagos State begins flowing in the second year of operation. As that money comes in — and as it grows year by year for 30 years — it funds the services your community uses: roads, schools, water, health. Over time, more royalty revenue means lower pressure on the household bills that fund those services.
Royalty flows for 30 years — growing annually
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Nothing Goes to Waste
The factory is designed to convert 42–45% of everything collected directly into manufactured products — graphite, graphene, hydrogen, and water. These are industrial materials sold to manufacturers around the world. What your household puts out becomes a product sold globally. That sale creates the Circular Royalty that comes back to your community.
42–45% direct material recovery — manufactured products
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Hydrogen Fuel — Made Here
The factory produces green hydrogen as one of its outputs. Hydrogen is a clean fuel used in industrial processes, transport, and power generation. Nigeria's Energy Transition Plan identifies hydrogen as a priority fuel. The Ibeju-Lekki corridor would have its own hydrogen production facility — the first of its kind in West Africa at this scale.
~4.8 tonnes of hydrogen per day — Phase 1
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Your Neighbourhood on the Climate Map
At full operation, the factory is designed to avoid the equivalent of what 62,000 cars emit in a year — every year, for 30 years. That is a contribution Nigeria can count toward its climate commitments. And it does not require anyone to change their behaviour — it happens because of what the factory does with the materials already being generated.
Equivalent of removing 62,000 cars/year at full operation
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"Forever Chemicals" — Permanently Destroyed
Some industrial and household materials contain PFAS — chemicals that do not break down in the environment and accumulate in water and soil. They are sometimes called "forever chemicals." The factory's oxygen-free conversion process permanently breaks down PFAS — they cannot survive it. Every tonne processed permanently removes these chemicals from the environment.
PFAS permanently destroyed in every tonne processed
Today vs. With the Factory

A direct comparison — what the Ibeju-Lekki Corridor looks like now, and what it looks like when the factory is running.

❌ Today
✗3 dumpsites closed or closing — no contracted alternative
✗PSP operators divert 40–60 km to Ojota — your bills go up
✗~930 tonnes per day enters Lagos Lagoon from this corridor
✗Fewer than 4 hours of electricity per day on average
✗Lagos produces less than 1 in 3 gallons of water it needs
✗You sort and separate — or nothing gets properly processed
✗Community receives zero revenue from what your household puts out
✗Materials end up in drains, roads, and waterways
✗No manufacturing jobs in the corridor from material conversion
✅ With the Factory
✓One enclosed factory handles everything — local, within the Free Trade Zone
✓Materials collected and converted within the corridor — no long-distance trips
✓Materials diverted from lagoon — waterway begins to recover
✓15+ MW net solar power exported to Free Trade Zone grid
✓~1.46 million gallons of clean water produced per day — Phase 1
✓You put everything in one collection — factory does the rest
✓Lagos State receives a Circular Royalty — growing every year for 30 years
✓Materials become manufactured products sold to global buyers
✓945 direct skilled manufacturing jobs in the corridor at full operation
What It Could Mean for Your Household

These are estimated changes — how your daily life could improve as the factory operates and the Circular Royalty starts flowing to Lagos State.

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15–30 min/week
Time saved from sorting, separating, and managing multiple collection arrangements
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~14,600 households
Worth of clean water produced every day in Phase 1 — within your corridor
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15 MW solar
Net power exported to the Free Trade Zone grid — enough for thousands of homes and businesses
What the Factory Does for the Environment

These are designed targets for full operation across the Ibeju-Lekki Corridor — what the factory is built to achieve every year, for 30 years.

287,000
Tonnes of CO₂e avoided per year — equivalent to removing 62,000 cars from the road annually
4.86M
Gallons of clean water produced per day at full operation — enough for 48,600 households
485,450
Tonnes per year diverted from lagoons and waterways — instead converted to manufactured products
~16 t/day
Green hydrogen produced at full operation — a clean industrial fuel for Nigeria's energy transition
How Your Community Gets Paid Back

The Circular Royalty is money that comes back to Lagos State from the factory — not a promise, not a rebate. It is a contractual payment, built into the 30-year agreement.

What This Really Means
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 first royalty payment arrives in the second year of operation and grows every year for 30 years. By the end of the 30-year contract, the factory is designed to have paid back more than it ever charged to process your materials.
For every ₦100 Lagos pays in manufacturing fees, Carbotura is designed to return ₦135 or more in royalty payments over the 30-year contract.
Where Everything Happens

Here is where your materials would go, which dumpsites are being replaced, and where the factory would be built.

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Locations
Where the factory would go
Inside the Lekki Free Trade Zone — a purpose-built industrial area with its own power and water. About 12 km from the main residential corridor. A fully enclosed building — not an open site.
The landfill being replaced — Olusosun
Lagos's largest dumpsite at Ojota. Formally entering an 18-month closure programme. When it closes, the corridor needs somewhere else for its materials to go. The factory is that somewhere else — but inside your corridor, not 60 km away.
The Epe site — already closed
The landfill closest to the corridor has already shut. A Dutch company is converting it to a different kind of energy plant. This is why collection services have been diverted further away — and why costs are rising.
The Ibeju-Lekki residential corridor
Where most of the materials come from — home to about 850,000 residents today, growing rapidly. This is the community that would benefit from shorter collection routes, cleaner water, more reliable power, and the jobs the factory creates.
Locations are approximate. The factory site within the Lekki Free Trade Zone is subject to formal site selection during the Community Feasibility Study. Distances are road-network estimates.
Questions People Ask

Straightforward answers to the questions that matter most.

Yes. One collection. Everything goes together — food scraps, plastic bottles, paper, cardboard, metal, glass, old clothes, electronics. You do not separate anything. The factory handles the sorting inside its own facility. You put it out. The collection service picks it up. Everything gets converted.

This works because the factory uses a process that does not need clean, pre-sorted material. It processes mixed materials — whatever households put out — and converts each fraction into something useful. The sorting happens at the machine level, not at your front door.

The odour situation in Ibeju-Lekki today is driven by three things: open dumping where materials have no collection service, the Epe landfill (now closed), and the long-haul diversion system that leaves materials sitting longer. As those sites close, if nothing replaces them locally, informal dumping gets worse — not better.

The factory is a fully enclosed industrial building. It processes materials in an oxygen-free chamber — there is no open-air processing, no burning, and no exposed material piles. It is designed to have almost no smell or atmospheric discharge. The neighbourhood impact of the factory is engineered to be near-zero.

The bigger change is that materials currently piling up in drains and open lots stop accumulating there. That is where the smell improvement actually comes from — not from the factory building itself, but from what it replaces.

The direct path is through the Circular Royalty. Every year — starting in the second year of operation — the factory pays Lagos State a growing royalty. Over 30 years, Lagos State is designed to receive more from the factory than it pays to use it. That money funds the services your household benefits from: roads, water, schools, health.

The indirect path is collection costs. Right now, PSP operators serving your area have to drive 40–60 km to Ojota to dump materials. Every extra kilometre adds to what they charge. When the factory opens inside the Free Trade Zone — a few kilometres away — that haul shortens dramatically, and so does the pressure on your collection bill.

You also eliminate the sorting overhead. Keeping separate bins, separate collection schedules, and separate service agreements has a hidden time and cost. One collection removes all of that.

They go in the same collection. Old phones, batteries, cables, small appliances — all of it goes into the standard collection service. You do not need a separate drop-off point, a special collection day, or any additional steps.

The factory's conversion process handles all material types. Electronics and batteries contain valuable metals — lithium, copper, cobalt — that the factory recovers as part of its output. PFAS-containing materials, which are found in some electronics, are permanently destroyed in the process. The factory treats all of it.

This is not incineration. The difference is fundamental — not just technical.

Incineration burns material using oxygen. The material is destroyed — converted to ash, CO₂, and air emissions. Roughly 30% of the original material remains as toxic ash that still needs to go somewhere. Burning also releases dioxins and particulates. This is why communities around incinerators often experience air quality problems.

The Carbotura Advanced Circular Manufacturing process uses microwaves — not flames. It operates in an oxygen-free chamber. Without oxygen, there is no burning. Instead, the energy breaks the materials apart at the molecular level, converting them into stable, high-value outputs: graphite, graphene, hydrogen, and water. Nothing is burned. Nothing is destroyed.

The result: incineration destroys your materials and creates pollution. The factory converts them into manufactured products and creates almost nothing harmful. It is a manufacturing process — not a waste management process.

The next step is a Community Feasibility Study — a 3-month technical process that confirms the site, verifies the numbers, and sets the formal agreement. Lagos State needs to authorize that study by mid-2026 for construction to begin.

If the study is authorized on time, construction begins in the second half of 2026. The factory opens approximately two years later — in 2028. The first royalty payment to Lagos State arrives in 2029.

The full system — handling all 1,330 tonnes per day from the corridor — reaches operation by 2031. From that point, it runs for 30 years.

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Environmental and performance figures are designed targets at commercial scale — they are not guaranteed operational outcomes. Financial projections are modelled estimates. All projections are subject to site-specific conditions and feasibility confirmation. This page is prepared for general community awareness. For full technical documentation, see the Waste Study, Proposal, and Economic Impact Report in the Lekki Sustainable Smart Infrastructure City engagement package.