FEGIsland Infrastructure Group
FEG Island Infrastructure Group

Turning Island
Waste Into Island
Wealth.

FEG Island Infrastructure Group originates, structures and delivers circular infrastructure platforms that transform waste, carbon and land liabilities into strategic national assets for Small Island Developing States.

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Founded on
First Principles
Designed for
Sovereign Scale
Built for
Generational Impact
Live Programme IndicatorsN · 24°
58Acres
Recoverable
12Months
To first processing
1000+Years
Permanent CO₂ storage
Programme Map · IndicativeUpdated 2026 Q2
Why mobile · split service

A mobile fleet does what a static plant structurally cannot.

Conventional waste-to-energy was designed for cities — fixed location, fixed scale, fixed economics. CIAP is a split, mobile service: the processing platform moves between islands, the finished outputs stay behind. That single design decision unlocks six advantages no static unit can match.

01

Arrives by sea

Ferry-deployable units land on the island ready to operate — no permanent plant, no major civil works, no decade-long build programme.

02

Right-sized to the island

5, 15 or 30 tpd modules combine into a fleet that matches the actual waste volume — never under-utilised, never overwhelmed.

03

Capitalised once, redeployed many times

The same fleet serves multiple islands across its life — eliminating single-site stranded-asset risk that kills fixed WTE economics.

04

Clears legacy dumps while serving daily waste

Mobility means the platform can move to a legacy site, remediate it, then return to routine service — one asset, two revenue streams.

05

Leaves finished products behind

Aggregates, blocks and mineralised carbon stay on-island as construction inputs. The processing kit moves on to the next deployment.

06

Disaster-response ready

When a hurricane hits, the fleet redeploys to surge-affected islands within days — something a fixed factory can never do.

01 · About

Infrastructure that starts with a blank sheet of paper.

FEG does not sell equipment. FEG originates infrastructure solutions from first principles — identifying national challenges and engineering integrated platforms that combine technology, finance, governance and delivery.

We are mandated by governments and capitalised by institutional partners to design infrastructure where none would otherwise exist — particularly in jurisdictions where conventional models cannot economically reach.

Glen J. Thorn, Founder and Chairman
Founder · Chairman

Glen J. Thorn

Former Managing Director of WYG Europe. Forty years delivering major infrastructure programmes across government, engineering, environmental services and strategic capital projects internationally.

02

Prof. Colin Hills

Co-Inventor · Carbon Mineralisation

Professor of Applied Geochemistry, University of Greenwich. Co-inventor of the accelerated carbonation technology underpinning CIAP's permanent CO₂ lock-in and aggregate production.

03

Dr. Paula Carey

Co-Inventor · Process Engineering

Co-inventor of the patented carbon-negative aggregate process. Three decades translating mineral carbonation science into commercial-scale circular infrastructure.

04

Dr. Nimisha Tripathi

Lead Scientist · Materials & Residues

Specialist in the characterisation and re-engineering of thermal residues, ash chemistry and metal liberation for downstream recovery and mineralisation.

05

Dr. Emily - Clare Mantell

Programme Director

Leads programme governance and sovereign engagement across CIAP deployments — bridging engineering delivery, community integration and institutional finance.

06

Charlie Youell

Operations & Deployment Lead

Heads field deployment, mobile platform logistics and operator training across island programmes, ensuring on-site delivery meets engineering and community standards.

The Sovereign Beneficiary

Infrastructure is the means.
People are the purpose.

Behind every gate fee, carbon credit and reclaimed acre is a community whose inheritance is being defended. FEG programmes are designed to be felt at household level — in jobs, in stability, in the resilience of the coastline that has always defined home.

Melanesian elder · ceremonial headdress
Pacific
Melanesian elder · ceremonial headdress
Traditional headwrap · community elder
Caribbean
Traditional headwrap · community elder
Polynesian shell & feather headdress
Pacific
Polynesian shell & feather headdress
Coastal floral crown
Indian Ocean
Coastal floral crown
02 · Platform
CIAP

Circular Infrastructure
Alliance Platform.

CIAP is not a project. It is a replicable national infrastructure framework — scoped, financed, governed and delivered jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

Framework
A single platform. Six integrated stages. One sovereign outcome.

Each stage compounds value into the next — converting cost centres into long-duration national assets.

  1. 01

    Waste

    ↓ flows to

    Municipal · industrial · marine

  2. 02

    Resource Recovery

    ↓ flows to

    Sort · shred · recover ferrous, non-ferrous & precious metals

  3. 03

    Carbon Mineralisation

    ↓ flows to

    Patent-protected enhanced incineration · post-burn metal recovery · permanent CO₂ lock-in

  4. 04

    Materials Production

    ↓ flows to

    Aggregate · cementitious · engineered fill

  5. 05

    Land Recovery

    ↓ flows to

    Coastal & industrial reclamation · increased land value

  6. 06

    Economic Development

    Jobs · exports · sovereign value · reduced carbon footprint

03 · Regional Programmes

Three oceans. One platform.

Each regional alliance localises CIAP into the legal, environmental and economic realities of its host nations.

Caribbean community elder
"The alliance exists for the people of these islands."Every regional programme is co-designed with the communities it serves.
Caribbean Circular Economy Alliance
CCEA17°N · 76°W

Caribbean Circular Economy Alliance

Caribbean & CARICOM nations

Pacific Circular Economy Alliance
PCEA12°S · 170°W

Pacific Circular Economy Alliance

Pacific Island states

Indian Ocean Circular Economy Alliance
OCEA04°S · 73°E

Indian Ocean Circular Economy Alliance

Maldives · Mauritius · Seychelles · Comoros

04 · Technology

Waste as a feedstock.

A continuous process designed for jurisdictions where every tonne of imported material and every cubic metre of landfill carries strategic cost.

01Stage

Feedstock Preparation

Mixed municipal, industrial and marine waste streams are sorted, shredded, dried and standardised into consistent inputs. Magnetic, eddy-current and optical separation recover ferrous metals, aluminium, copper and precious metals upstream of thermal processing — protecting downstream equipment and returning high-value commodities to market.

02Stage

Thermal Resource Recovery

High-temperature conversion recovers energy and stabilises material into mineral ash suitable for downstream use. Patent-protected incineration stages ensure optimal ash chemistry. Bottom ash is re-screened and re-shredded post-incineration to liberate residual gold, silver and platinum-group metals concentrated in the burn — a second precious-metal recovery pass before mineralisation.

03Stage

Atmospheric Carbonation

Reactive ash captures CO₂ from concentrated sources, mineralising carbon into permanent crystalline form.

04Stage

Construction Material Production

Carbonated material is engineered into aggregate, blocks and cementitious products to substitute imports.

05Stage

Mobile Island Deployment Platform

Modular, sea-deployable infrastructure scales to the largest and smallest island economies alike.

05 · Process

Waste re-engineered as
structural national asset.

A single, continuous flow — engineered to be legible at a glance to ministers, financiers and operators alike.

Live flow · waste to structural block
divertedtop ashbottom ashCO₂
Waste
Landfill
Sort · Shred · Burn
Pellets
Aggregate
Blocks

Rubbish bound for landfill is intercepted at source and routed instead into the plant, where it is sorted, shredded and incinerated. The reactive ash loops back through the plant, mineralised into pellets and graded into aggregate — then bound into concrete and cast as structural blocks.

How it works · visual reference

From waste in, to infrastructure out.

Two views of the same platform — the mobile resource recovery system in the field, and the material flow that turns non-hazardous waste into engineered fill and aggregates.

FEG mobile resource recovery system: from waste to resources — mobile, modular, sustainable. Diagram showing waste in, FBC combustion, energy recovery, ash processing, ACT carbonation, end products.
The FEG Mobile Resource Recovery System — deployed in weeks, right-sized for islands and remote communities.
Waste to aggregates and engineered fill: four-step process — waste received, sorting and preparation, advanced separation, processing — producing recycled aggregates and engineered fill for road bases, concrete, drainage, land reclamation and civil earthworks.
Material flow — non-hazardous waste becomes premium recycled aggregates and engineered fill.
06 · Intellectual Property

We patented the ash.
Not the power.

For a century, incineration has been engineered around one variable — electrical output. FEG inverts that logic. Our pending patents protect the engineered composition and reactivity of the resulting ash, the very material from which carbon mineralisation, aggregate and coastal defence are produced.

Conventional Logic
Optimise combustion for kilowatts. Ash is residual waste.
FEG Inverted Logic
Optimise combustion for ash chemistry. Power is the by-product.
Patent Family · Pending
Engineered ash composition · carbonation reactivity · pelletisation pathway.
Strategic Effect
Creates a defensible materials platform — not a commodity power plant.
05 · Economics

Multiple revenue streams.
One infrastructure platform.

01Sovereign gate fees

Waste Processing Fees

Sovereign gate fees
02Domestic substitution

Aggregate Sales

Domestic substitution
03Permanent removal

Carbon Credits

Permanent removal
04Coastal reclamation

Land Recovery

Coastal reclamation
05Industrial offtake

Heat Recovery

Industrial offtake
06Tipping & treatment

Industrial By-Products

Tipping & treatment
Island coastline
A Different Model

Why islands need a different infrastructure model.

Pacific community
Context

Conventional models were built for continents — not archipelagos.

  • 01Land is constrained — every acre carries strategic and economic premium.
  • 02Construction materials are imported, exposing nations to global price volatility.
  • 03Waste management costs are disproportionately high relative to population.
  • 04Climate vulnerability demands resilient, locally-controlled infrastructure.
  • 05Circular economics convert recurring liabilities into compounding national assets.
Mobile fleet vs fixed WTE

Traditional WTE was built for cities. CIAP was built for islands.

One is a fixed factory built on assumptions that do not hold for Small Island Developing States. The other is a roving circular manufacturing service — it arrives, eliminates a liability, leaves finished construction products behind, and moves on.

Why islands need a different infrastructure

Fixed WTE
CIA Mobile Fleet
  1. 01

    Scale & Deployment

    Built for cities, not islands

    Requires a large permanent site, major civil works, and a population base big enough to justify the plant.

    Permanent · site-bound
    Right-sized modular fleet

    Modular units deployed in 5, 15 or 30 tpd configurations and scaled by fleet — ferry-deployable, no civil works.

    Designed for island scale
  2. 02

    Capital & Finance

    Single-site capex exposure

    High upfront capex, site-specific financing, and significant stranded-asset risk if volumes fall.

    Stranded-asset risk
    Capitalised once, deployed many times

    Fleet can be capitalised once and deployed many times — reducing single-site exposure and improving programme financeability.

    Programme-financeable
  3. 03

    Legacy Waste

    New waste only

    Focuses mainly on incoming waste streams; existing dumps and backlog waste remain separate liabilities.

    Legacy liability unresolved
    Clears the backlog

    Can clear legacy waste progressively while maintaining ongoing service — both delivered through one operating model.

    Remediation + service in one
  4. 04

    Carbon Outcome

    CO₂ to atmosphere

    Combustion releases CO₂ to atmosphere unless expensive retrofit capture is added — rarely viable at island scale.

    Net carbon emitter
    CO₂ captured and mineralised

    CO₂ off-gas is captured and mineralised through ACT, supporting a lower-carbon or net-negative pathway.

    Net carbon negative pathway
  5. 05

    Operational Flexibility

    Fixed and inflexible

    Hard to adapt to seasonal variation or disaster surges. Sub-economic if volumes drop below the design threshold.

    Zero adaptability
    Fully configurable

    Fully configurable fleet can be redeployed, resized or repurposed across sites as demand changes.

    Fully adaptive
  6. 06

    Output Value

    Electricity and ash

    Produces electricity and ash residue, with landfill still needed for residuals.

    Landfill dependency unchanged
    Multiple useful outputs

    Produces aggregate, engineered fill, concrete products and potential carbon credits — every fraction has a destination.

    Zero residual waste
Modularity

One platform. Multiple deployment modes.

Same engineering, same supply chain — sized to the island and the programme.

01
5 tpd
Use case

Pilot or micro-island deployment

Deployment logic

Single unit operating independently

02
15 tpd
Use case

Small island or phased rollout

Deployment logic

One or more units combined as demand grows

03
30 tpd
Use case

Larger island or backlog-clearance service

Deployment logic

Multiple units deployed as a fleet

04
Fleet
Use case

Multi-island service network

Deployment logic

Same platform redeployed where needed

05
Barge
Use case

Ultra-mobile, zero-footprint deployment

Deployment logic

Arrives by sea, processes waste, leaves only aggregates behind

The CIAP proposition

One platform arrives by sea, eliminates a generational liability, leaves finished construction products and permanently sequestered carbon behind — and moves on.

Coastal resilience infrastructure
Climate Resilience

Infrastructure that strengthens
before disaster strikes.

The Circular Infrastructure Alliance Platform converts municipal solid waste into engineered construction aggregate and verified carbon removal credits. In a disaster recovery context, this dual output transforms how island nations prepare for, respond to and fund climate resilience.

01Resilience pillar

Strategic Aggregate Reserve

Post-disaster reconstruction demands massive volumes of aggregate — for roads, foundations, revetments and drainage. Island states typically import this at high cost with lead times measured in weeks. The CIAP platform produces aggregate locally and continuously, building a stockpiled strategic reserve before disaster strikes.

02Resilience pillar

Landfill Risk Elimination

Existing open landfills on low-lying islands are themselves disaster risks. Storm surge mobilises leachate and waste across communities, compounding damage. The platform removes that hazard at source — intercepting waste streams before they reach landfill and converting them into structural material.

03Resilience pillar

Engineered Fill for Land-Raising

For islands facing inundation, carbonation-stabilised aggregate provides structural fill material for land-raising and coastal protection — produced from the island’s own waste stream. Sovereign material sovereignty, not import dependency, in a climate emergency.

04Resilience pillar

Continuity of Operations

The modular, containerised plant format means units can be redeployed, relocated or replicated across a jurisdiction following a major event. No single point of infrastructure failure. Production resumes where it is needed, not where it was originally installed.

05Resilience pillar

Carbon Finance for Resilience Funding

Verified carbon removal credits generated by the platform provide a recurring revenue stream that can be ring-fenced for disaster preparedness, emergency response or climate adaptation investment. Resilience becomes self-funding.

* Resilience outcomes are programme-specific and modelled per jurisdiction. Aggregate reserves and carbon credit volumes depend on feedstock profile and plant scale.

06 · Consortium

Built for credibility.

CIAP is delivered through an institutional consortium structured for governance confidence, technical assurance and long-term programme stability.

  1. T01

    FEG Island Infrastructure Group

    Originator · Platform Operator

  2. T02

    Sovereign Government

    Mandate · Policy · Land

  3. T03

    Tier 1 Engineering Partner

    EPC Delivery · Engineering Assurance

  4. T04

    University Partners

    Research · Validation · Talent

  5. T05

    Institutional Investors

    Capital · Long-duration Finance

  6. T06

    Programme Operators

    O&M · Local Workforce · Lifecycle

07 · Impact

Measuring national impact.

Indian Ocean community
Indian Ocean · the people behind the numbers
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Waste diverted
Programme lifetime, indicative
0t
CO₂ permanently stored
Mineralised, >1000 yr
0 acres
Land recovered
Per programme cycle
0t
Aggregate produced
Import substitution
0+
Jobs supported
Direct & indirect
08 · Contact

Let's discuss your island infrastructure challenge.

Confidential briefings are available to Ministers, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Development Banks and qualified institutional partners.

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