Work out what a biowaste case needs

01 · Working together

Agree the next stage from the evidence

An initial assessment is a starting point. Deeper consultancy, a pilot or a partnership each has its own agreed work, deliverables and decision. You can also bring a specific process or training question from an existing operation.

1. Initial assessment

   Establish the material, location, current route and decision. Compare the opportunity with suitable alternatives, including biogas and composting, and identify gaps in the evidence.

   You provide

   Your situation, available stream information, current costs and local constraints.

   The next decision

   Whether to investigate further, test a specific assumption, improve the existing route or stop. Preliminary analysis does not establish full feasibility.

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2. Feasibility and facility design

   Develop the business case, process layout, equipment requirements and budget around the actual material and local conditions. Compare investment, operating costs, remaining treatment and credible output markets on the same basis.

   Design basis

   Stream tests, capacity needs, site services, operating skills and locally serviceable equipment.

   Operating model

   Identify the customer, joint venture or other company that will run the facility, together with its responsibilities and supply and output arrangements.

   

3. Pilot and validation

   Design a pilot around the assumptions that need testing: substrate behaviour, process conditions, output quality or the route to a buyer. Agree the evidence needed before committing to a larger operation.

   What it establishes

   Results under the tested conditions, with remaining uncertainties made explicit. A pilot does not prove every future operating assumption.

   

4. Delivery, start-up and training

   Manna can coordinate delivery partners, lead the agreed technical work, support commissioning and start-up, and help find and train the operating team. The customer, a joint venture or another company runs the facility; Manna does not collect waste or run facilities.

   

5. Partnership where it fits

   A case may continue through further consultancy, technology licensing or a longer-term partnership. Selected participation in an operating business can be discussed where justified, with responsibilities and commercial terms agreed for that case. Partnership is optional.