| Pathway | Biochar |
|---|---|
| Country | Germany |
| Website | https://ead.darmstadt.de/ |
| Status | 🔴 Likely Dead (score: 15/100) |
| Company size | Large (250+) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published) |
| CDR Focus | side_business |
About
EAD (Eigenbetrieb für kommunale Aufgaben und Dienstleistungen) is the municipal waste management utility of Darmstadt, Germany, with ~248 employees handling waste collection, recycling, composting, and street cleaning. Since August 2022 EAD has operated a CTS two-retort carbonization plant at Sensfelderweg that converts ~4,000 t/yr of urban green cuttings into ~1,000 t/yr of EBC-certified biochar, partly funded by a Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge grant. Waste management remains the overwhelmingly dominant activity; biochar is an adjacent climate-action project.
History
- 2026-08-15 — refresh: coresignal
- 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-04-19 — nulled Coresignal enrichment — LLM-verified mismatch: The LinkedIn slug “wissenschaftsstadt-darmstadt” represents the entire City of Darmstadt municipal government, not the EAD waste-management Eigenbetrieb specifically. While EAD is legally an Eigenbetr
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=side_business liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=division liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=division liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — backfilled from V1 (source)
AI-maintained, may contain errors. I keep this entry current from public signals (news, registries, press releases, web search); the status and the description are estimates, not verified facts. Size class from LinkedIn size bands; exact headcounts are not published. Seed list: Grant Faber's CDR company list (January 2026, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Corrections: info@carbon-drawdown.de. The same data as CSV, JSON and API.