Dschang's Household Waste Is Now Compost, Avoiding 17,989 Tonnes of CO2e in Six Years
by ERA Cameroun (Environnement, Recherche, Action) · HQ 🇨🇲 Cameroon
ERA Cameroun, a local association specialised in waste management since 1995, runs the technical side of the Dschang composting sites with the town council and the GoodPlanet Foundation. The project is certified under the Gold Standard micro-scale label and counts methane avoided with the UN composting methodology AMS-III.F. A peer-reviewed study published in February 2025 estimates that between 2017 and 2023 the composting avoided 17,989 tonnes of CO2e (a 20,461-tonne dump baseline minus 2,472 tonnes of project emissions). The same study reports about 150,000 euros of carbon-credit income for the municipality between 2019 and 2023, and also warns that equipment, organisation and regulation gaps threaten the work.