Simple answers for a new carbon recycling category.
Is Pink Dot the same as compost?
No. Compost is one possible pathway. Pink Dot is the public label, bag, and source-separation interface for managed carbon recovery. It can support compost, AD, gasification, HTC, HTL, pyrolysis, fuel pathways, materials, CO₂ capture, and verified CDR where infrastructure supports it.
Does every Pink Dot item become carbon removal?
No. Pink Dot creates a cleaner feedstock stream. Carbon removal depends on downstream infrastructure, MRV, permanence, and verified storage or stabilization pathways.
What about edible or donatable food?
Edible surplus should follow local food recovery, donation, health, and safety rules before residual recovery. Pink Dot is mainly for approved residuals, scraps, soiled fiber, and controlled feedstock streams that are no longer suitable for donation.
What about pizza boxes, grease, and food leftovers?
These can be handled differently by site. Greasy pizza boxes may be Pink Dot where approved; clean cardboard may be recyclable; FOG is usually back-of-house only; customer leftovers and food scraps may be Pink Dot if the site’s downstream pathway accepts them.
Can Pink Dot work without new bins?
Yes. Early pilots can use package labels, stickers, pink bags, bin decals, signs, cart overlays, and back-of-house collection before installing new permanent bins.
Why controlled environments first?
Airports, QSRs, schools, campuses, grocery, stadiums, and theme parks can control packaging, signage, staff instructions, haulers, collection bags, and downstream partners more efficiently than open municipal curbside systems.
Can plastic be Pink Dot?
Only if a participating site approves a specific bio-based or compostable packaging component for its downstream recovery system. Conventional fossil-derived plastic should generally not enter the Pink Dot stream.