BOLD Credits reduce methane emissions by funding critical biological waste treatment infrastructure
BOLD is a high-integrity environmental credit designed to drive capital to biological waste treatment while helping organizations meet decarbonization and organic waste reduction goals (i.e., Extended Producer Responsibility) locally and globally. BOLD credits address 50% of global waste and 11% of methane emissions, and are critical tools to transition to a regenerative, low-carbon and food secure future.
BOLD Credits are tracked, audited, and certified using Carrot's dMRV (digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) platform. By leveraging AI, Machine Learning, and Blockchain, Carrot ensures next generation credits with 100% data verification—delivering unmatched integrity while reducing certification costs and time.
BOLD Credits deliver immediate impact by diverting organic waste from landfills to composting facilities to transform waste into valuable compost needed to regenerate topsoil, while also preventing methane production in landfills, a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential that is more than 81 times greater than CO₂—identified as a priority in fighting climate change.
Carrot distributes the proceeds from BOLD sales to composting services and waste generators, improving the economics of the sector and encouraging participation. Rewards are also shared with waste generators with the aim of incentivizing better sorting, while also reducing the cost to hire professional composting services (Pay-As-You-Throw) with the aim of making composting cheaper than landfilling in any location in the world.
Proper sorting, hauling and treatment of biological waste is expensive and difficult, which explains why the necessary infrastructure is not available to more than 95% of the global population.
BOLD creates the economic and social incentives needed to restructure and improve the collection and treatment of biological waste, in composting locally and globally through private market solutions that help the public sector meet their stated goals.
Carrot's Community-Engineered Solution creates the incentives needed for collaboration to occur on improving organic resource management locally and globally.
Organic waste represents approximately 50% of global waste and while it is 100% recyclable, virtually all of it ends up in a landfill. BOLD Credits are designed to sort organic waste from recycling recovery streams and divert them from landfills to professional, accredited composting facilities to close the loop on the biological cycle (left side of the Butterfly diagram.)
What comes from nature must go back to nature returning nutrients to the soil.
When organic waste (e.g., food waste) is mixed with recyclables it becomes too expensive and difficult to sort, clean and recycle, resulting in sustained low-recycling and reuse rates and high levels of landfilling. Sorting organic waste at the sources is the key first step to split the biological cycle from the technical cycle, unlocking recycling and reuse potential and allowing the transition to a circular economy to occur.
BOLD is the vehicle through which society can put in place the necessary infrastructure as well as provide the incentives needed for broad participation in the circular economy.
Addressing methane (CH4) emissions is the highest priority globally in tackling climate change due to its high Global Warming Potential. Methane is nearly impossible to remove from the atmosphere and flaring and capturing solutions, while important, suffer with significant leakage concerns.
Preventing the production of methane is the single best way to reduce its quantities in the atmosphere. Composting organic waste offers an effective and scalable solution to prevent landfill methane emissions in a manner that is additional and permanent, and with no risk of reversal.
Most regions lack the necessary collection systems and composting facilities to process organic waste effectively. Without sufficient infrastructure, food and organic waste in general, often ends up in landfills.
BOLD Credits incentivize the development of new composting facilities and collection networks by providing a financial mechanism to support investment in composting infrastructure. Organizations that recover and compost organic waste can generate verified credits, creating a revenue stream that accelerates the expansion of sustainable composting solutions.
Composting is often more expensive than landfilling due to collection logistics, processing costs, and the lack of financial incentives for organic waste diversion. As a result, businesses, households and municipalities struggle to justify the additional expense.
BOLD Credits offset the cost of composting by monetizing verified composting efforts, making it financially viable for businesses and municipalities. By assigning value to properly managed organic waste, BOLD Credits help level the economic playing field, ensuring that composting becomes a more attractive and sustainable waste management option.
Unlike other recyclable materials, organic waste often lacks regulatory frameworks requiring producers to take responsibility for its end-of-life management. Without EPR policies, food producers, manufacturers of compostable packaging, retailers, and consumers have little incentive to invest in proper composting solutions.
BOLD Credits act as a market-based instrument that fills the policy gap by rewarding responsible organic waste management. By enabling businesses to earn credits for diverting organics from landfills and ensuring proper composting, BOLD Credits encourage voluntary corporate responsibility and set the foundation for scalable, policy-driven EPR programs in the future.
A certificate representing an amount of organic waste (food waste, green waste and/or compostables) that has been diverted from a landfill and recycled into compost. The amount is presented in weight (e.g., 1 ton of organic waste.)
Utility
Organic Waste Reduction or
Extended Producer Responsibility
Co-benefits: owns all, except emissions prevented at a Landfill.
A certificate representing greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂e) avoided by diverting organic waste from landfill to composting. The emissions avoidance is calculated by comparing the composting outcome to the landfill baseline scenario. The amount is presented in CO₂e (e.g., 1 metric ton of CO₂e avoided.)
Utility
Carbon Accounting, NetZero
Co-benefits: none.
The holder of a retired credit owns the environmental claims associated with each methodology.
Schedule a DemoComposting is the engineering of a natural process that has been occurring for millions of years. By controlling temperature, moisture and oxygen levels, composting facilities accelerate the decomposition of organic matter, producing a stable, nutrient-rich soil amendment that improves soil health, reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers and sequesters carbon in the ground.
In addition to closing the biological cycle and reducing methane emissions at landfills, BOLD:
Diverting organic waste from landfills increases overall recycling rates and reduces contamination of recyclable materials.
Composting reduces the volume of waste sent to landfills, lowering disposal costs and extending landfill lifespans.
Compost returns essential nutrients to the soil, improving agricultural productivity and reducing dependence on synthetic inputs.
Healthy, compost-enriched soils require fewer chemical inputs, reducing costs for farmers and environmental pollution.
Improves soil moisture retention, reducing irrigation needs and conserving water resources.
For every informal job in a dump, composting creates 3.5 formal jobs in a composting facility and 287 jobs in recycling, repair and remanufacturing.
BOLD aims to make composting cheaper than landfilling in every location around the world, immediately.
