Overview

Food Recycle Ltd was incorporated with a mission to license technology that turns unavoidable food waste into high-value animal nutrition. The company addresses one of Australia's most pressing environmental and economic challenges: the food waste crisis, threatening to overwhelm our landfill capacity while simultaneously creating methane emissions 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Food Recycle's core licensed technology transforms problem waste into premium animal feed, creating a profitable circular economy that benefits waste producers, licensees, and the environment. Food Recycle has already lodged an Australian patent application with an innovation patent granted, validated the technology through a pilot facility producing commercial-grade feed, and signed its first licensing agreement with a NSW Co-Op of food waste producers.

With New South Wales facing complete landfill exhaustion by 2030 and an estimated shortfall exceeding 1.1 million tonnes of capacity annually, the NSW Government has mandated food waste separation for businesses from mid-2026 and households by 2030. Food Recycle's scalable technology arrives at precisely the moment Australia needs transformative waste solutions most urgently.

Reasons To Invest

Massive Addressable Market: Australia generates 2-3 million tonnes of commercial food waste annually, representing a billion-dollar waste collection market at conservative rates of $400 per tonne. Converting this waste into egg-laying poultry feed, however, poses a greater opportunity, in another billion-dollar annual market at $780 per tonne.

Triple Revenue Model: Food Recycle generates income through 4.5% royalties on licensee facility revenue, 20-25% profit margins from building turnkey facilities, and carbon credit revenues, with portions returned to licensees. Creating predictable recurring income balanced with substantial growth surges.

First-Mover Advantage: With the first licensing agreement already signed and NSW's mandatory food waste separation beginning mid-2026, Food Recycle is positioned to capture market share ahead of the regulatory wave driving demand.

Superior Technology: The process delivers the highest profit per tonne of food waste processed at the most efficient speed compared to composting, anaerobic digestion, or Black Soldier Fly protein alternatives.

Proven Validation: Multiple successful feed trials conducted with the University of New England and CSIRO on poultry and aquaculture have delivered exceptional results, with a Life Cycle Assessment by Edge Environment, a leading sustainability firm, validating environmental credentials.

Opportunity

Food Recycle is raising between $50,000 and $1,000,000 at $10 per share to accelerate its path to revenue generation. The capital raise timing aligns perfectly with Australia's escalating waste crisis and imminent regulatory requirements forcing businesses to separate food waste from mid-2026.

The investment enables Food Recycle to expedite engineering plans for the first full-scale facility, dramatically reducing time-to-market while the Co-Op expands its membership base of food waste producers. This timing is critical as New South Wales approaches a landfill capacity cliff, with Greater Sydney and surrounding regions facing complete exhaustion by around 2030 if current disposal practices continue unchanged.

The company's pre-revenue stage presents an exceptional entry point for investors, as each facility commissioning will deliver substantial capital injections through facility construction profits alongside recurring royalty streams. With the first licensee already secured and regulatory tailwinds accelerating demand, Food Recycle is positioned to rapidly scale its licensing network across Australia.

Problem and Solution

The Problem: Food waste represents a catastrophic loss of resources and environmental burden. Enormous quantities of energy, water, land, and labour invested in food production are entirely wasted when food is discarded. When food waste reaches a landfill, it decomposes and generates methane (a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide). Disposing of food waste costs businesses and councils substantially while creating odour and contamination issues, squandering nutrients that could be recovered and reused.

New South Wales faces an acute crisis with landfill capacity in Greater Sydney and surrounding regions projected for complete exhaustion by approximately 2030, creating an estimated shortfall exceeding 1.1 million tonnes of landfill capacity annually. Current infrastructure to divert organics away from landfill falls dramatically short of what's required, making this crisis both environmentally critical and economically urgent.

The Solution: Food Recycle's licensed technology empowers licensees to transform problem waste into high-value animal feed products, running highly profitable businesses while creating sustainable ecosystems around food waste recycling. The process significantly reduces methane production compared to landfill disposal. By converting waste into feed, the technology produces more sustainable nutrition made from waste materials that effectively displace raw materials used in commercial feeds, closing the loop at the highest possible level within the food system.

Company Structure

Food Recycle Ltd is led by Founder and Managing Director Norm Boyle, supported by a high-profile executive team including John Roydhouse as Chair and Non-Executive Director and the Honourable Andrew Stoner as Non-Executive Director. This leadership team brings strong vision, high conviction, and the strategic expertise necessary to navigate both the waste management and animal nutrition industries.

The company operates through a lean technology licensing model, focusing organisational resources on three core strategic areas: expanding the licensing network across Australia, supporting licensees with turnkey facility construction and operational guidance, and continuous technology development to maintain competitive advantage. This structure minimises overhead while maximising scalability potential.

Strategic partnerships include collaboration with the University of New England and CSIRO for feed trial validation, ensuring the technology meets rigorous scientific standards. The company has also partnered with Edge Environment, a leading sustainability consultancy, to validate environmental credentials through a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment. The first licensing agreement with a Co-Op formed by NSW food waste producers demonstrates the business model's viability while establishing the template for future Co-Op formations across the country, creating a replicable growth pathway.

Business Model

Food Recycle generates revenue through three complementary streams that balance predictable recurring income with powerful growth surges. First, the company receives a 4.5% royalty on revenue generated from each licensee's facility operations, creating stable, long-term recurring cash flow as the facility network expands. Second, Food Recycle earns approximately 20-25% profit margins from building turnkey facilities for each licensee, delivering substantial high-value capital injections with each new facility commissioning. Third, carbon credits generated by the facilities will be applied for through Food Recycle, with portions returned to licensees, creating an additional revenue stream while providing financial benefits back to the licensing network.

This triple-revenue model is powered by an inherently lean cost structure characteristic of technology licensing businesses, positioning the company for stable, repeatable long-term gross margins. Each new facility commissioned not only adds a recurring royalty stream but also delivers immediate construction profits, creating a compounding effect as the network grows.

The pricing strategy aligns incentives across all stakeholders: licensees operate highly profitable businesses turning waste into valuable feed products, waste producers secure affordable collection while potentially receiving profit subsidies, and Food Recycle captures value through royalties, construction margins, and carbon revenues.

Industry and Competitive Advantage

Food Recycle operates at the intersection of two billion-dollar industries: waste collection and animal feed. Australia's commercial food waste sector requires collection and processing of approximately 2-3 million tonnes annually, representing an addressable market of around one billion dollars per year, using a conservative rate of $400 per tonne. If this food waste were converted to egg-laying poultry feed, it would represent another billion-dollar annual market at reasonable rates of $780 per tonne.

The industry faces regulatory transformation with the NSW Government mandating staged food waste separation for businesses starting mid-2026 and households by 2030, driving unprecedented demand for scalable waste processing solutions. Main technology competitors include composters, anaerobic digestion facilities, and Black Soldier Fly Larvae protein companies.

Food Recycle's competitive advantage is decisive: it represents the best use of food waste available. The technology delivers a far higher-value and more resource-efficient solution than landfill, composting, anaerobic digestion, or Black Fly Larvae protein meals. Looking at key business metrics, Food Recycle produces the highest profit per tonne of food waste processed at incredibly efficient processing speeds.

The process closes the loop at the highest possible level, retaining nutrients within the food system, displacing virgin feed crops, reducing emissions, and transforming costly waste streams into revenue-generating inputs. Making it the most circular, climate-positive, and economically compelling use of food waste available.

Use of Funds:

The capital raised through this campaign will be allocated strategically across four critical areas to accelerate Food Recycle's path to revenue generation:

Thirty percent (30%) will fund Facility and Engineering Plans, expediting the technical design and planning required to commission the first full-scale licensed facility faster, reducing time-to-market during this critical regulatory window.

Forty percent (40%) will be allocated to Working Capital, providing the operational runway necessary to support the Co-Op's membership expansion and maintain business momentum as the first facility moves toward commissioning and revenue generation begins flowing through royalties.

Twenty percent (20%) will cover IP Costs, protecting and potentially expanding the company's intellectual property portfolio beyond the current Australian patent application and granted innovation patent.

Ten percent (10%) will fund Legal expenses associated with scaling a licensing model, including additional licensing agreements, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance requirements as the business grows. 

Resources & Publications

Food Recycle Cooperative Announcement | 7 NEWS
Stapletons Butchery Case Study | Australian Food & Grocery Council
Chicken Meat Successful Feed Trial | UNE 
Jade Perch Successful Feed Trial | CSIRO

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