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Launch a PPP program for Circular Economy Companies in Jordan
A free 17-page guide · The $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
What this guide is for
Your company launches a PPP program to develop waste collection, sorting, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy and landfill gas projects as public-private partnerships (PPPs) and to turn the waste of the rebuild into materials and power.
The case
Circular economy companies turn waste into materials and power
The rebuild will demolish and replace much of what stands today, and every ton of concrete, steel and asphalt it removes is material that can be used again. The projects of the next fifty years will reuse their materials and recover energy from the rest under long-term contracts. Circular economy companies that build a PPP program now will run those systems for decades. This guide invites circular economy companies in Jordan to launch that program, starting with the projects at home.
The guide
Close the loop on the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
Your company launches a dedicated PPP program, a team and a set of offers that develop waste, recycling and recovery projects as PPPs and return materials, compost and power to the projects around them, starting with Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba.
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A PPP circular economy team
A dedicated team that knows how PPPs are prepared, procured and financed follows every waste, municipal, industrial and construction project in the pipeline from the first market sounding and joins consortiums early, while sponsors are still choosing their partners.
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Collection, sorting and recycling
Much of Jordan’s waste still ends up in landfill. The company develops collection, transfer, sorting and recycling facilities as PPPs with municipalities, so plastics, metals, paper and glass return to industry as raw materials.
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Energy and compost from waste
Waste that cannot be recycled can still produce power, heat and compost. The company develops waste-to-energy, biogas, composting and landfill gas projects as PPPs and sells what they produce to the grid, farms and industry around them.
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Construction and demolition waste
The rebuild will break up concrete, asphalt and steel on site after site. The company crushes, grades and certifies that material for reuse in new roads and buildings and offers it to the contractors inside each consortium.
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Small-scale PPPs and direct proposals
Jordan’s PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender, and PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 accepts direct private proposals under Article 15. Your company can propose sorting lines for neighboring municipalities, composting for a central market or recycling of solar panels and electronic waste and bundle them into one tender.
Why circular economy companies
Circular economy companies turn waste into materials and power
Every asset the rebuild replaces leaves concrete, steel and asphalt behind, and every city it serves produces waste every day. Circular economy companies already collect, sort, recover and sell that material under contracts with municipalities and industry, which is the model every PPP follows.
Where circular economy companies fit in a PPP
- Collection
- Collection, transfer and street cleaning contracts with municipalities, paid on service levels.
- Recycling
- Sorting plants and recycling lines that return plastics, metals, paper and glass to industry as raw materials.
- Recovery
- Waste-to-energy, biogas and composting plants that sell power, heat and compost under long-term agreements.
- Construction waste
- Crushing and certification of concrete, asphalt and steel from demolition for reuse on new projects.
- Landfills
- Rehabilitation and operation of landfills under concession, with landfill gas captured and sold as power.
What changes for circular economy companies
AI, robotics and tokenization change how waste is collected, sorted and financed. AI forecasts volumes, plans routes and tracks each material from site to sorting line, which raises the value of every ton a plant recovers. Robots sort mixed waste at speed and at a steady cost, and tokenized stakes let regional investors own part of a plant and receive their share of its sales as they arrive.
Why a program, and why now
A circular economy company that waits for the next municipal tender competes on price for one contract at a time. A program lets your company bring sorting, recovery and demolition waste projects to government as its own proposals and join construction, municipal and industrial consortiums as their waste partner. Jordan’s pipeline is large and early, and the companies that join those consortiums now will handle their waste for decades.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Circular Economy Companies in Jordan for the infrastructure singularity
This free 17-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Every one of them will produce waste during construction and operation, and the municipal, industrial and port projects among them will produce it every day. A Jordanian circular economy company that recovers the waste of one project at home can carry the same model to the next one across the region.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI lets a circular economy company see what is in its waste before it arrives. Models track materials from the building site and the household bin to the sorting line, forecast volumes and prices for recycled materials and plan collection routes so trucks run full. A small team can also read a concession contract and test a financial model in days, which lowers the cost of every bid.
Robotics
Robotics changes the economics of sorting. Vision-guided robots pick plastics, metals, paper and glass from mixed waste at high speed, sensors grade each stream and automated crushers turn demolition waste into reusable aggregate, so a plant recovers more material at a lower cost and keeps its people away from the most hazardous work.
Tokenization
A recycling, biogas or waste-to-energy plant with long-term supply and offtake agreements earns contracted, measurable revenue, which suits tokenization. A circular economy company can tokenize stakes in the plants it runs, pay holders from gate fees and material and power sales as they arrive and publish each plant’s tonnage and recovery rates to the same registry, so investors see what the asset recovers.
Small PPPs and research labs
Small PPPs suit the circular economy well, because a sorting line for one municipality, a composting site at a market or a crusher on a demolition site can be built quickly and measured in tons from the first day. A circular economy company can run lab pilots across many sites at once, test new sorting, recovery and tracking technology on live waste streams and carry the best results into its large bids.
Unsolicited proposals
A circular economy company can see where waste with value goes to landfill, where a municipality pays too much to move it or where demolition material could feed a new project. A direct proposal lets it turn that knowledge into a project of its own design, such as a sorting plant or a biogas unit, and keep the right to match the best offer if the project goes to tender.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the company’s development and operations teams, with a PPP lead at its center and the plants, fleets and buyers the company already has behind it.
- PPP team
- A small team of engineering, operations, finance and legal people that covers every PPP in Jordan’s pipeline from the first market sounding.
- Collection
- Collection, transfer and sorting contracts with municipalities, paid on service levels and the material recovered.
- Recovery
- Recycling, composting, biogas, waste-to-energy and landfill gas plants developed as PPPs with long-term offtake.
- Construction waste
- Crushing, grading and certification of demolition material for reuse on the projects of the rebuild.
- Direct proposals
- Circular economy projects brought to government under Article 15, including small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million.
- Technology
- Sorting robots, material tracking and route planning deployed as standard on every site.
- Partners
- Standing agreements with contractors, energy developers, manufacturers, banks and infrastructure funds that complete each consortium.
What the company gains
The company gains long-term contracts with municipalities, project companies and industry, revenue from gate fees and recovered materials, and equity in the plants it runs. Each project becomes a reference for lenders and a route into the next consortium, in Jordan and across the region.
It also gains a position in the materials system the rebuild will need. The first circular economy company in the region to pair robotic sorting, material tracking and energy recovery inside PPPs will set the terms that later projects are priced against.
Next steps
How a circular economy company can start
Any circular economy company in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the plants, fleets and buyers the company already has.
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Mandate
Board approval for a PPP circular economy program, with its waste streams, the equity it can commit and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named program lead, with engineering, operations, finance and legal people drawn from the company’s existing teams.
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Pipeline
A map of Jordan’s $86 billion of projects by sector and stage, and early meetings with the municipalities and contracting authorities that manage waste.
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Offers
Collection, sorting, recovery and demolition waste offers packaged for municipal, industrial and construction PPPs and priced for whole-life contracts.
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Partners
Contractors, energy developers, manufacturers, lenders and technology companies to complete each consortium.
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Pilot
A first sorting, composting or demolition waste project as a small-scale PPP or direct proposal, taken from idea to submission.
Jordan has the projects, municipalities that need better waste services and a law that lets a company propose its own. A PPP program puts your company at the center of how the superintelligent infrastructure future reuses what it builds.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen sections, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for circular economy companies in Jordan.
Download the guide (PDF)
- 01IntroductionWhy a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.p. 3
- 02The guideClose the loop on the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunityp. 5
- 03Jordan and AqabaAn $86 billion pipeline to start withp. 6
- 04Artificial intelligenceHow AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for circular economy companies.p. 7
- 05RoboticsHow robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for circular economy companies.p. 8
- 06TokenizationHow tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for circular economy companies.p. 9
- 07Small PPPs in parallelWhy many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.p. 10
- 08PPP research labsA lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.p. 11
- 09Unsolicited proposalsHow Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.p. 12
- 10Why circular economy companiesCircular economy companies turn waste into materials and powerp. 13
- 11The programThe program can sit inside the company’s development and operations teams, with a PPP lead at its center and the plants, fleets and buyers the company already has behind it.p. 14
- 12AboutAbout Jordan PPP and what it offers.p. 15
- 13Next stepsHow a circular economy company can start: six first steps.p. 16
Questions
Questions about the guide for Circular Economy Companies in Jordan
- What does the guide for Circular Economy Companies in Jordan propose?
- Your company launches a PPP program to develop waste collection, sorting, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy and landfill gas projects as public-private partnerships (PPPs) and to turn the waste of the rebuild into materials and power.
- Why should circular economy companies in Jordan launch a PPP program?
- Circular economy companies turn waste into materials and power. Every asset the rebuild replaces leaves concrete, steel and asphalt behind, and every city it serves produces waste every day. Circular economy companies already collect, sort, recover and sell that material under contracts with municipalities and industry, which is the model every PPP follows.
- Which PPP projects can circular economy companies in Jordan take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. Every one of them will produce waste during construction and operation, and the municipal, industrial and port projects among them will produce it every day. A Jordanian circular economy company that recovers the waste of one project at home can carry the same model to the next one across the region.
- How can circular economy companies in Jordan start a PPP program?
- Any circular economy company in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the plants, fleets and buyers the company already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, offers, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give circular economy companies in Jordan?
- The company gains long-term contracts with municipalities, project companies and industry, revenue from gate fees and recovered materials, and equity in the plants it runs. Each project becomes a reference for lenders and a route into the next consortium, in Jordan and across the region.
- Is the guide for Circular Economy Companies in Jordan free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as a 17-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
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