| Pathway | Biochar |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Website | https://tiedisposal.com/ |
| Status | 🔴 Likely Dead (score: 15/100) |
| CDR Focus | division |
About
International Tie Disposal (ITD) is a subsidiary of Polivka International, a North Carolina railroad-services company, created to convert discarded creosote-treated railroad ties into biochar via pyrolysis at a Hamlet, NC facility using 426 kilns supplied by Biochar Now of Colorado. The project has faced years of litigation that reached the NC Supreme Court and community opposition over air/water pollution, but received its synthetic minor air quality permit from NCDEQ in late 2024.
History
- 2026-09-15 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=division liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟠 Suspect → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=review_needed liveliness=🟠 Suspect (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (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.