Nine in ten CDRTaking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it for a long time, such as underground or in biochar. credits sold depend on feedstockThe raw material a plant runs on, such as wood residues, manure, biosolids, or crushed rock..97% have yet to be delivered.

The 45 million tons of CDR credits sold but not yet delivered will be made almost entirely from biomass or alkaline minerals. The largest buyers are signing deals for millions of tons.

Every ton of your residue must be shown to be genuine, non-durableFeedstock that would decompose or burn, and release its carbon, if no one used it. waste with no past or potential productive user, with documented chain of custody, weights, moisture, carbon content, contaminants, certifications, and legal sourcing. Without FEED, each developer sends its own data requests, sampling plans, and site visits, and you hand sensitive supplier lists and volumes to each one. FEED packages the evidence and analysis with a specific streamA supplier’s recurring source of one feedstock, such as a sawmill’s bark or a utility’s biosolids. of your material, in the format each CDR registryAn organization that sets the rules for carbon credits and issues them, such as Isometric or Puro.earth. uses, and the results travel with your feedstock to registries and verifiersAn independent auditor, hired by the developer or producer, that checks the evidence behind a credit or claim..

Without leakageEmissions that move elsewhere because of a purchase, when a displaced user replaces the feedstock with something else or a supplier produces more. evidence, many CDR registries cap what a developer can pay for feedstock. The caps guard against two kinds of market leakage: (1) a payment pushing a supplier to make more waste, and (2) CDR outbidding an existing user of the stream, forcing that user to replace it, often with fossil fuel or virgin material. Registries assume a payment below the capA registry’s limit on what a developer can pay for feedstock, used when there is no direct evidence on leakage. is too small to cause leakage. This is how registries protect the credit but leave feedstock suppliers little reason to sell into CDR. FEED runs Ecostrat’s supply shedThe area a feedstock can be hauled from at reasonable cost, and the suppliers and buyers in it. history through a techno-economic analysisAn analysis that combines a feedstock’s physical properties with the economics of its market, such as who buys it, at what price, and what they would use instead. to assess both kinds of leakage directly, with evidence registries can weigh in place of a cap.

Sell FEED-designated feedstock directly to CDR developers or through the FEEDstock Desk. Through the Desk, you sell to Ecostrat, a single creditworthy buyer that has worked in the biomass economy for over 25 years. Ecostrat buys as a principal, so it can pool demand from many developers and commit to buying from you at a known price. The Desk builds your sales pipeline and handles transport and delivery.

Each new supplier and each reporting period brings another round of data requests, site visits, and sampling to document origin, counterfactual fateWhat would have happened to a feedstock if no one had bought it, such as landfilling, burning, or rotting in place., and leakage risk. The records rarely arrive in the same format twice. A FEED designation does that work for the stream, keeps it current through annual monitoring, and maps it to your registry’s protocol.

Deductions and reversals often start with weak feedstock evidence. FEED excludes undocumented or ineligible material before designation, so the tons you buy reach verification with nothing left to deduct for feedstock. It assesses counterfactual fate and leakage against years of supply shed history, so your verifier weighs evidence in place of conservative defaults. Annual monitoring then catches changes in the supply shed before they reach your credits.

BiofuelFuel made from organic feedstock, such as renewable diesel, biodiesel, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable natural gas, and ethanol. plants are scaling fast, and many run on the same residues and wastes that CDR needs. Once a stream has a biofuel buyer, its counterfactual changes. Without CDR, it would have replaced fossil fuel, so taking it for CDR means that fossil fuel gets burned instead. The CDR credit still stores the stream’s carbon, but it can’t claim the full benefit it would have over the typical disposal pathway. Registries count that lost benefit as leakage against your credits. FEED designates a stream for CDR only when no biofuel producer nearby is able or willing to take it.

FEED runs each stream’s evidence through a techno-economic analysis built on over a decade of Ecostrat’s supply shed data: who has used each residue in the area, who has bought it, and how much has been produced. The analysis shows what the feedstock would have done without CDR and whether buying it causes leakage. You get those findings before you buy, independent of the price you pay, so your verifier has direct evidence to weigh in place of a price proxy.

The FEEDstock Desk sources FEED-designated streams matched to your specs, negotiates the terms, and arranges transport to your site. It mixes streams from several suppliers, so backup supply at the same spec is always on hand. The evidence for every delivery goes straight to your verifier.

If most of your feedstock comes from one supplier, sponsor its FEED designation. You pay the designation fee and the annual monitoring fees. For as long as you keep sponsoring, you buy that supplier’s designated feedstock at the market price for undesignated feedstock. You get the evidence behind your credits without paying a premium on every ton.