A 90-day council pilot that turns waste into food, jobs, and audit-grade EPR evidence. Zero CapEx. Sovereign credit covers it. One ward. One processor. One Cabinet report.
Plastic waste keeps rising. Food poverty keeps rising. Both line items grow on your council's balance sheet — and both are reported separately, funded separately, measured separately. That separation is the inefficiency.
EPR is now landing on your suppliers. They will pass it through to you in the next procurement cycle, whether you ask for it or not. Meanwhile, your food poverty programmes are competing for the same constrained social-value pound.
The CircularOS valuation anchor is fixed: £450 per verified tonne · 40 meals per tonne. These are not modelled assumptions — they are the sealed constants of the system, applied identically whether the tonne moves through a council pilot, a corporate ESG buyer, or a community gateway.
Most council pilots start with a year of design work. Ours starts the day you say yes — because the operating system already exists. 66 sealed protocols across 10 domains cover every step from supplier intake to processor onboarding to EPR reporting.
This is not a pilot in the consultancy sense — there is no scoping document, no PowerPoint discovery phase, no integration cost. You commit one ward. We activate the fabric around it.
CircularOS operates on a dual credit system, which is what makes a zero-CapEx council pilot possible:
Throughout the pilot, the council has its own live dashboard view, populated by the same Truth Ledger that backs the £450 ESG Block. Every figure clicks through to its supporting protocol entry. Every tonne traces to its verification event. Every meal traces to the food partner.
We are not asking for a tender. We are not asking for procurement approval. We are asking for one Cabinet member, one ward, and one introduction to your existing waste contractor. Everything else is on the protocol fabric.
If the 90-day Cabinet report does not justify a scale-up, the council walks away with: a documented baseline of its own plastic flow, ward-level evidence of meals served, and a sealed audit trail it can carry into the next procurement cycle. Worst case is a free dataset. Best case is the first council in the UK with audit-grade plastic-to-meals infrastructure.