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Your Country.
A Cleaner Path Forward.ඔබේ රට.
පිරිසිදු ඉදිරි මාර්ගයක්.

A new kind of manufacturing facility would turn the material sent to Karadiyana into products — and end a practice the Supreme Court has already ruled unlawful.නව වර්ගයේ නිෂ්පාදන පහසුකමක් කරදියානට යවන ද්‍රව්‍ය නිෂ්පාදන බවට පත් කරයි — ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය දැනටමත් නීති විරෝධී බව තීන්දු කළ භාවිතයක් අවසන් කරමින්.

No new taxes. No government spending. A new national revenue stream.නව බදු නැත. රජයේ වියදම් නැත. නව ජාතික ආදායම් ප්‍රවාහයක්.
Community Benefits · 5 min read · DOC 06 OF 06

What this document is

A plain-language explainer: what's happening at Karadiyana, why the Supreme Court's ruling matters, and what the Circular Royalty™ means for the country.

Three things this document says
  1. Nothing changes about how waste is collected — this facility replaces where it ends up.
  2. The Supreme Court has ruled the current practice at Meethotamulla unlawful; Karadiyana carries the same risk.
  3. ~175 local manufacturing jobs from Day 1, and a new royalty payment to the national government — at zero cost to taxpayers.
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Court ruling that changes everything
~500
Tons per day at risk in Karadiyana
~175
New local jobs, Phase 1
30
Years the government receives royalty payments
~$535.2M
Total estimated royalty paid to the government (against ~$400.6M in fees paid by the government — separately, never netted)
Near-zero
Landfill use — materials become products

What's happening, in plain languageසරල භාෂාවෙන්, සිදුවෙමින් පවතින්නේ කුමක්ද

In 2017, the Meethotamulla dumpsite collapsed and killed 32 people. In March 2026, Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled that the long-term open dumping that caused it was unlawful. Karadiyana — the region's largest active landfill — is already flagged by government engineers for the same kind of risk.2017 දී, මීතොටමුල්ල අපද්‍රව්‍ය බැහැර කිරීමේ ස්ථානය කඩා වැටී මිනිසුන් 32 දෙනෙකු මිය ගියේය.

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The Court has already ruledඅධිකරණය දැනටමත් තීන්දු කර ඇත
This isn't a future risk — it's a decided legal fact. The Supreme Court found the government responsible for allowing Meethotamulla's dumping to expand far beyond what was ever permitted.
31 March 2026
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~175 local jobs from Day 11 වන දිනයේ සිට දේශීය රැකියා 175ක්
The first stage of the facility creates around 175 permanent, skilled manufacturing jobs. At full scale, the facility supports around 1,225 direct jobs across the Western Province.
~175 jobs from Day 1
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The government pays a fee, and gets back moreරජය ගාස්තුවක් ගෙවා, ඊටත් වඩා ලබා ගනී
Carbotura builds and pays for the entire facility. The government pays a per-ton fee for the processing service, and 13 months later starts receiving a larger royalty payment back from Carbotura — a payment that grows every year and structurally exceeds the fee.
$62.01/ton royalty, Yr 2

What this means for people near the site — and for the whole countryස්ථානය අසල සිටින මිනිසුන් සඳහාත් මුළු රටටත් මෙයින් අදහස් වන්නේ කුමක්ද

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Waste pickers are part of the plan, not left out of itඅපද්‍රව්‍ය එකතු කරන්නන් සැලැස්මේ කොටසකි, එයින් බැහැර නොවේ
People who currently earn a living collecting recyclables at these sites are included from the start — through priority hiring into facility jobs or formal transition support — not displaced by the project.
Included, not displaced
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Clean water, in a country that needs itපිරිසිදු ජලය, එය අවශ්‍ය රටක
Sri Lanka is officially rated "highly water stressed," using over 90% of its available freshwater. The facility produces net-positive ultrapure water as part of its process — a real local benefit, not a side effect.
90.8% water stress (FAO)
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The facility runs on its own powerපහසුකම එහිම බලයෙන් ක්‍රියාත්මක වේ
After the national grid's island-wide blackout in February 2025, this matters: the facility self-powers and does not draw on or add strain to the national electricity grid.
Grid-independent

How the Circular Royalty™ worksCircular Royalty™ ක්‍රියා කරන ආකාරය

The government pays Carbotura a per-ton processing fee. 13 months after each fee payment, Carbotura pays the government back a larger royalty payment — growing every year, and always exceeding the fee it was based on.

$9.13M
Government fee paid, Year 1 (Phase Initial) — a separate transaction, never netted against the royalty
$11.32M
Royalty received, Year 2 (Phase Initial)
~175
New local manufacturing jobs — Phase 1

Before and afterපෙර සහ පසු

TODAYඅද
✗Material continues to an over-capacity landfill flagged for collapse risk
✗The practice that caused Meethotamulla's 2017 disaster continues at Karadiyana
✗No new manufacturing jobs created from the materials collected
✗No royalty revenue for the government
WITH CARBOTURACARBOTURA සමඟ
✓Material converted into manufactured products instead of landfilled
✓A compliant answer to the Supreme Court's finding
✓~175 skilled manufacturing jobs created in Phase 1; ~1,225 at full scale
✓Circular Royalty™ paid to the government — $11.32M/yr from Year 2, growing every year, against a separate $9.13M/yr fee (never netted)
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Environmental and performance figures are designed targets at commercial scale — they are not guaranteed operational outcomes. Financial projections — including the Circular Royalty™ estimate of ~$535.2 million over 30 years, against a separate ~$400.6 million Beneficiation Fee obligation over the same period — are modelled estimates based on standard contract parameters and are subject to Deployment Study confirmation. Job figures are estimated from standard industry scaling parameters. No current published disposal-cost figure exists for Colombo or the Western Province. All projections are subject to site-specific conditions, permitting, financial guarantee issuance, and Deployment Study confirmation.
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Candidate siting area — provisional, subject to Term Sheet phase verification.අපේක්ෂිත ස්ථාන ප්‍රදේශය — තාවකාලික, Term Sheet අදියරේ සත්‍යාපනයට යටත්ය.