Plastic Waste Collection

Overview

PWRM0001 sets out eligibility criteria and accounting procedures for plastic waste collection projects under Verra's Plastic Waste Reduction Program. It applies to activities that collect plastic waste and direct it to appropriate end destinations, which the applicability conditions list, including recycling and controlled disposal such as landfills. Projects quantify the additional quantity of plastic waste collected relative to a baseline. Each credit is a Waste Collection Credit representing one tonne of plastic waste collected.

Sources: methodology document · Verra Verified Carbon Standard

01 · Roles

The workflow as an explicit directed graph. In Graph each column is one role, so you can see who acts at each step; every node names the org.broadlistening.policy.block.* def it resolves to plus its input and output record. Data flow switches to a lineage view that makes explicit what data each node needs and makes, with dependency arcs tracing every record back to the node that produced it. Hover to trace, click to inspect; revise edges (dashed) send work back.

03 · Generated lexicon records

The records this methodology compiles to, ready to write to a PDS. The first tabs are the new policy engine records; the ★ claim.activity tab and those after it are reused ATProto Collective Funding Ecosystem records (org.hypercerts.*): the issued hypercert batch, its rights, an example verification attachment and a retirement receipt.

{
  "$type": "org.broadlistening.policy.methodology",
  "code": "PWRM0001",
  "name": "Plastic Waste Collection",
  "registry": "Verra Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)",
  "sector": "Plastic waste",
  "creditType": "reduction",
  "status": "active",
  "version": "1.0",
  "roles": [
    {
      "id": "registry",
      "name": "Standard Registry",
      "permission": "Owns the policy, approves participants, anchors each issuance to its evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "proponent",
      "name": "Project Proponent",
      "permission": "Registers the project and submits monitoring reports."
    },
    {
      "id": "vvb",
      "name": "Validation & Verification Body",
      "permission": "Independently validates the design and verifies monitored data."
    }
  ],
  "schemas": [
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/pwrm0001-project-design",
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/pwrm0001-monitoring-report"
  ],
  "graph": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.graph/pwrm0001",
  "issuesAs": "org.hypercerts.claim.activity",
  "workScope": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.workscope.cel/pwrm0001-scope",
  "rights": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.claim.rights/pwrm0001-rights",
  "createdAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

04 · Schemas

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