Climate instrument · not a Recycleinc product stamp
SWM Rules 2026 encourage local bodies to generate carbon credits. Industry talks CCTS. Consultants talk tCO₂e. Recycleinc talks wet tonnes that did not sit in a dump. Those can become a credit later — under someone else’s methodology.
We do not issue carbon credits
One credit is typically one tonne of CO₂-equivalent reduced or removed, issued on a registry after a methodology, baseline, additionality test and verification. It is not a GST recycling certificate and not an EBWGR.
India’s compliance layer is the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) under the Energy Conservation Act, administered with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency. Voluntary markets (Verra, Gold Standard and others) are a different file.
Methane. Unprocessed wet waste in dumps is a greenhouse problem. Composting, biomethanation and Bio-CNG (Chetpet / Madhavaram on the Chennai public record) are the climate operations. Four-stream is how wet stays wet.
RDF. Substituting refuse-derived fuel for coal or other solid fuel is an energy-and-waste overlap. Calendar: 6% → 10% → 15%. RDF desk.
ULBs. SWM 2026’s carbon-credit encouragement is aimed at local bodies, not at a private aggregator claiming the city’s dump.
Weigh by stream. Photo and GPS on pickup. Processor invoice. Monthly vault. That is MRV activity data — measurement someone else can verify.
We will not print a campus tCO₂e without a named methodology, a baseline, and an independent verifier. We will not sell “carbon offsets” from a van route. If a ULB or a PIBO wants a project file, the advisory SKU packages tonnes; the registry still issues.
Green credits are a different MoEFCC instrument. Do not mix the two in one slide. Green Credit Programme →
Official starting points: BEE (CCTS), MoEFCC notifications, and the SWM 2026 operator brief. Last verified as operator notes: 17 Aug 2026 — guidelines keep moving; the gazette wins.