Waste to Feedstock
Turning complex waste into gasification-ready feedstock
Mana turns residual waste into Engineered Waste Feedstock: a defined, certified input for waste-to-fuel plants.
A trillion-dollar energy source, buried in the world's waste
The world produces more residual waste every year. Shipping, aviation and industry need far more low-carbon fuel than is made today. One can supply the other.
The residual waste challenge
global municipal waste per year by 2050, up from 2.6 Bt in 2022
refuse-derived fuel produced globally is landfilled or burned for low-value heat
CO2e emitted every year from global waste management, rising to 1.8 Bt by 2050
The clean energy challenge
CO2 emitted by shipping every year, nearly 3% of global emissions
potential bio-methanol demand for shipping by 2040, against 2.2 Mt produced today
EU demand for sustainable aviation fuel per year by 2050, against under 0.3 Mt today
Sources: World Bank, What a Waste 3.0; IMO, Fourth GHG Study 2020; DNV; ReFuelEU Aviation.
Engineered Waste Feedstock
A new value chain, ready to scale. Mana makes the link that was missing.
Waste is highly variable
Film, cardboard, textiles, wood, metal and rubber: industrial residual waste changes with every source, site and season. Moisture, ash and chlorine swing with it. No standard tells a developer or lender whether a given stream will perform in a plant.
Waste streams are matched to the gasifier
Mana qualifies each waste stream, sets the gasifier's operating window and engineers a feedstock recipe that fits it. What comes out is Engineered Waste Feedstock: the same every time, and ready for gasification.
Gasifiers need predictable feedstock
Consistent input gives consistent syngas, and a plant that runs as designed.
What is gasification? The feedstock is heated to over 1200 °C with too little oxygen for it to burn. Instead of ash and flue gas, it breaks down into syngas: hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
Syngas is converted to circular methanol
Over a catalyst, the hydrogen and carbon monoxide combine into methanol, which can also be processed further into sustainable aviation fuel.
What is methanol? CO + 2H2 → CH3OH. A liquid fuel that is stored and bunkered much like today's marine fuels, and that ships already run on.
Loaded, and off to sea
The methanol goes to shipping and, as SAF, to aviation. Without a reliable feedstock there is no reliable syngas, and no scalable waste-to-fuel value chain. That is the problem Mana solves.
Your browser could not start the 3D view. The value chain runs from waste sourcing through Engineered Waste Feedstock, gasification and methanol synthesis to offtake by ship.
Market
Market forces are converging around waste-to-fuels
Offtake demand is locked in by regulation, feedstock is abundant and cheap, and the first plants are moving from study to steel.
Offtake market
Shipping and aviation are locking in long-term demand for low-carbon fuels
- 144 Mtglobal methanol demand by 2031, from 120 Mt today
- 6%SAF required in EU aviation fuel in 2030, rising to 20% in 2035
Mordor Intelligence; DNV, Methanol as marine fuel, 2025; ReFuelEU Aviation.
Feedstock market
Waste is a large, growing and low-cost feedstock that needs to be made reliable
- 3.86 bn tof municipal waste a year by 2050, about one third still dumped or uncollected
- 6.5 Mtof refuse-derived fuel traded across European borders every year
- 40 Mtmore residual waste treatment capacity the EU needs by 2035
World Bank, What a Waste 3.0; RDF Industry Group, 2025; CEWEP.
Our customers
A growing waste‑to‑X ecosystem, where every plant needs predictable feedstock
Waste managers, project developers, technology providers and industrial asset operators.
- EUR 800m+Europe's first waste-to-methanol plant, Ecoplanta (Repsol), took FID in 2025 and starts in 2029
- 273renewable methanol projects in the pipeline; early pioneers showed feedstock quality decides plant performance
Repsol; Industry Decarbonization, Enerkem case review; GENA Solutions.
Started with projects. Now building technology.
Founded as a spin-out of NG Nordic, which handles 4.4 million tonnes of waste a year
Waste-to-methanol projects taken through feasibility, with Equinor and Braathens Renavia
Steps from waste to qualified feedstock: waste and technology qualification, feedstock engineering, optimisation, validation
First project ready for pre-FEED, and what the projects taught us becomes a platform for the whole industry
Industrial and research partners
We are building the waste tech platform
Mana is turning project-specific expertise into scalable infrastructure for the waste-to-X industry, together with waste managers, project developers, technology providers and plant operators.