Lenz Composting

United States · Proponent: ClimeCo LLC

Compost project in United States, listed on the CAR registry. 136,806 t issued so far, 90.3% of them retired.

Issued: 137K; tCO₂e
Retired: 124K; 90.3% of issued
Outstanding: 13K; tCO₂e
First issuance: 2015; first retirement 2016

Canonical record

Every field, with its source

Registry page ↗

Registry: CAR; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Project ID: CAR1096; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Methodology: car-organic-composting; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Category: Ghg management; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Type: Compost; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Country: United States; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Region: North America; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Status: Registered; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR
Proponent: ClimeCo LLC; via CarbonPlan OffsetsDB, originally CAR

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Quality framework

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Methodology risk

In the record

How robust the crediting method iscar-organic-composting

Vintage

In the record

When credits were first issuedPre-2016, weighted down

Country governance

In the record

Host-country risk indexIndex for United States

Permanence

In the record

Risk that stored carbon is releasedTechnology or avoidance

Source reliability

In the record

How trustworthy each source isCAR registry

Cross-registry check

In the platform

Same credits listed twice?Screened across 6 sources

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Source data: CarbonPlan OffsetsDB (carbonplan.org/research/offsets-db). Project types incorporate the Voluntary Registry Offsets Database, Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, CC BY 4.0. Signals and summaries are derived by QAVCM. Data as of 2026-10-02.

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