Waste-to-Value Investment Forum 2026

The New Circular Economy of Remaking Things

The Impact Innovation Investor Forum (I3F) series focus on issues and opportunities with renewables for cleaner industrial materials, building materials, and other resource recovery such as nutrients for fertilizers, biomass thermal energy and biochar or activated carbon.  The recoverable value of these “lost” resources combines with the benefits of environmental clean-up (avoided costs as well as longer-term liabilities, with those who take ESG seriously now see as a ticking timebomb).  Projects throughout the Americas, Europe and the developing world help define the state-of-the-art, such as turning the liability of end-of-life tires into renewable assets of recovered Carbon Black (rCB), chemicals (derived from pyrolysis oil, instead of combusting it as fuel), surplus energy, and steel plus carbon credits, efficiency rebates, and/or tax equities.

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ABOUT: Waste Conversion has been heating up in recent years, now with hundreds of viable solutions on the market, and many opportunities to put them to use in the Americas and abroad.  This third event in the series presents and discusses the state of Waste-to-Value (W2V), one of the fastest-growing and more important industries of our current economy, comprised of at least four sub-industries:

(1) Waste-to-Energy (more), including low-carbon/clean energy fuels, electricity, thermal energy, energy storageWood chips for processing, process heat and efficiency solutions like LED lighting

(2) Waste-to-materials recovery and conversion: “trash” or residues from other processes into products of value such as the aforementioned recovered Carbon Black from waste tires, fractionation of oils, biochar from biomass, fertilizers from biogas, bioplastics and other green chemistry raw materials.

(3) Waste stream management better and best practices

(4) Biomass Waste-to-Fertilizer conversion (organic liquid fertilizers from Anaerobic Digestion, for example) for sustainable and/or regenerative agriculture and other products.

See below for the agenda or contact us to propose a presentation, sponsorship or other collaboration.

WHO ATTENDS: 

Project Developers
Investors, Asset Managers, Gatekeepers
CleanTech Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Risk Managers and Underwriters
Social Impact Entrepreneurs
Waste rubber tires conversion to TDF and rCBWaste Haulers, Waste owner/producers seeking solutions
Innovators of Industrial Solutions to food/water/energy/materials
Farmers & Food Processors
Biorefinery and MRF (Materials Recovery Facilities) owner/operators
Municipal solid waste managers, landfill operators, solid waste authorities
Plastics Compounders
Professional Services providers, consultants, educators, financial intermediaries

“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.
We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.”
-Buckminster Fuller

AGENDA:

Program to include

  • Keynote Presentations
  • Panel Discussions and Debates (nominate topics)
  • Roundtable Discussions
  • Pre-Forum Workshops (proposed … what would you prefer, if not these?)
    • Project Finance 101 — how to successfully initiate, de-risk and fund renewables projects.
      Strategies and best practices for capital formation, all stages and technology paths welcome.
    • Carbon Management — what are the best methods of GHG mitigation and carbon sequestration?  How to account for long-term carbon credits and tax equities.  What materials and technical pathways deliver the greatest impacts?  Can current technologies go beyond slowing the rate of carbon emissions and begin to reverse the trend?  What about carbon credits and other incentives?
      Recent Roundtable Discussion on this topic

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Municipal wastewater treatment plant

More “Trash Talk” — the need for radical innovation and capital for project development:

  • U.S. waste generation per capita is now 4.5 lbs/day, nearly double 1960 levels
  • Over 60% of solid waste still goes directly into landfills
  • Water supplies and natural resources are on the decline
  • Consumer behavior (serious conservation) is difficult to change
  • Industry itself is change resistant
  • There are many more companies deserving investment than ever… but why do so few actually get financed?   More and more capital is “parked” for lack of high-quality deals, with most of it seeking $500m or larger transactions.  I3F and its partners, sponsors, and affiliates help bridge this gap.  Join us!

Co-hosted by Renewables Investor Forum and In3 Capital Partners.

PREVIOUS EVENTS:

4. July 2016, Santa Clara, CA:  University of California Extension

I3F Renewables on the Rise:  Solutions for Pollution Prevention & Climate Protection

3. January 2016, Salinas, CA:  Monterey County Ag Commissioner’s Offices

I3F Cutting-edge Solutions for Sustainable Food, Water & Energy

2. April 29-30, 2015, San Jose, CA:  Corinthian Event Center

RenewFi-2: Opportunities in Renewable Energy Finance

1. January 28-29, 2015, Richmond, CA:  Topline Accelerator

Renewables Finance Forum (RenewFi-1), archived

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