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ScoredCAROrganic Waste CompostingWASHINGTON, USRegistry: RegisteredGeneral Methodologyv2.1

Lenz Composting

Developer: ClimeCo LLC

CAR-1096 ↗

#1422of 1611 in Industrial#1201of 1692 in United States#690of 883 in Climate Action Reserve (CAR)

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 4.0 / 10
Integrity 🔒 Transparency 🔒 Claim Safety 🔒 Documentation 🔒
Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Scored2026-09-19high confidence

evidence:61/61registry documents analyzed · 5red flags

Generated by CarbonMeld Analysis Pipeline · Methodology · Editorial Policy · About the System
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Analysis

The Lenz Composting project has a verified additionality assessment and a recognised methodology, but the verification report reveals a pattern of serious operational and compliance failures: repeated biofilter VOC destruction-efficiency shortfalls across 2023 and 2025, a major data-loss event, two regulatory violations, and four mandatory corrective actions. Leakage treatment, FNRB, and baseline reassessment timing are absent from the extracted record, and the more recent monitoring report contradicts the earlier verification report on whether FPIC was conducted. These issues collectively undermine confidence in the project's environmental integrity and data reliability.

Red Flags

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Findings

Risk Indicators

Additionality

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Permanence

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Leakage

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Baseline

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Safeguards

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Double-claim

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Evidence

Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    Stated in the project documents

    The documents claim CORSIA eligibility, but no registry label confirms it: check vintage and authorization.

    Source: project documents (not confirmed by the registry)

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    Methodology under ICVCM assessmentCAR U.S. Organic Waste Composting Protocol

    The Integrity Council has not decided on this methodology yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment

  • Removal or reduction

    Emission reduction or avoidance

    Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.

    Source: registry label

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    No Article 6 authorization

    No corresponding adjustment: the host country can also count this reduction towards its own target.

    Source: registry label

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Registry labels last checked:2026-09-27

Credit Vintages

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2014
10,61110,6110
2015
17,91117,9110
2016
9,6109,6100
2017
11,89811,8980
2018
11,05211,0520
2019
9,0359,0350
2020
9,5349,5340
2022
22,50622,5060
2023
21,38821,3880
2024
13,261013,261
2025
11,463011,463
Total148,269123,54524,724

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Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1
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