Plastic Waste Recycling

Overview

PWRM0002 provides procedures to quantify the additional plastic waste recycled under Verra's Plastic Waste Reduction Program. Eligible activities include installing new recycling facilities, adding capacity or improving technology at existing facilities, and incentivizing or facilitating an increase in the collection of plastic waste that is then recycled. Version 1.1 covers both mechanical recycling and chemical recycling, also called advanced or tertiary recycling. Each credit is a Waste Recycling Credit representing one tonne of plastic waste recycled.

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": "PWRM0002",
  "name": "Plastic Waste Recycling",
  "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/pwrm0002-project-design",
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/pwrm0002-monitoring-report"
  ],
  "graph": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.graph/pwrm0002",
  "issuesAs": "org.hypercerts.claim.activity",
  "workScope": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.workscope.cel/pwrm0002-scope",
  "rights": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.claim.rights/pwrm0002-rights",
  "createdAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

04 · Schemas

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