The region's landfills are closing. Your city can host what replaces them.
IOS builds local recovery nodes that turn organic waste into feed, fertilizer, and fuel. Your city keeps paying to have its waste handled — that part doesn't change. What changes is where: processing minutes away instead of states away, jobs at the facility, and products made from your own waste stream.
OF REGIONAL CAPACITY LOST BY 2030 — FROM ONE EXPIRED LANDFILL PERMIT.
A landfill in New York expired its permit last year. Nobody's replaced it. That single site accounts for two-thirds of all the disposal capacity the Northeast is set to lose by 2030.
It's not alone. Roughly a quarter of everything eight states throw away is headed toward landfills running out of room. Maine loses more than half its capacity the day Juniper Ridge hits its limit, in 2028. New Jersey's losing ground on the same clock. So is New Hampshire. So is Massachusetts.
Here's the part that should actually worry you: losing capacity is fast. Replacing it isn't. A new landfill takes five to seven years to permit, minimum. A new incinerator, closer to ten. The Northeast is running out of places to put its waste faster than it's legally allowed to build new ones.
That's not a future problem. It's already here. Twelve million tons of Northeast waste get trucked out of state every year: to Ohio, to Pennsylvania, to Virginia, because there's nowhere closer left to put it.
NEWMOA's numbers stop at capacity. They don't track cost. But you don't need an economist to finish the sentence: less local capacity and longer hauls to farther-away landfills is the arithmetic sitting under every disposal bill about to get worse.
IOS is part of the answer to that math. It thins the flow of waste and converts it in place — before it ever needs a truck, a landfill, or a permit application that takes a decade to clear.
Source: NEWMOA, Solid Waste Disposal Capacity in the Northeast 2024 (Feb 2026 ed.). New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts are also losing capacity on the same timeline; the report does not break out a comparable percentage for each.
No single process handles what your city throws away.
Faced with vanishing capacity, a city has three moves. Wait years for new capacity to clear permitting. Keep trucking waste farther away as the miles run out. Or change what leaves in the first place.
Every method for recovering value from organics is good at something, and blind to something else. So instead of picking just one, your waste gets routed stream by stream to the process built for it, then those processes layer together — producing more efficient recovery and a wider range of products than any single method could make alone.
Not everything leaves as a finished good, either. The node also turns out raw materials — feedstocks and inputs that patch straight into local manufacturing lines.
Not your city's
hauling company.
IOS manufactures products from what your city already throws away — hauling partners bring it in, and the facility does the rest, locally. The shape of each partnership is worked out city by city. Three things never change:
Your town's
name on the label.
Some of what the node makes ends up as a branded product on a shelf. And every batch is made somewhere in particular — the label can say so, with a mark naming the node it came from and the town around it.
For hosting cities, that opens a door: partnering with a branded product that carries your town's mark — hometown pride on a package with reach far beyond it. The bag at the local hardware store, grown from what the neighborhood threw away. The shape of it is worked out with each city — like everything else.
And the shelf is only half the story. The node also supplies raw materials to local producers — feed for nearby farms, fertilizer for growers, inputs for manufacturers down the road. What the city throws away feeds what the city makes.
Two-thirds of the region's disposal capacity is already going away. Permitting anything to replace it takes five to ten years. The sooner your city moves, the sooner it's on the winning side of that math.
Bring the processing home. Start the conversation.
CITIES FIRST — BUT NOT CITIES ONLY. IF YOUR COMPANY GENERATES HIGH-VOLUME FOOD OR ORGANIC WASTE, THE SAME DOOR IS OPEN.