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Compliance Guide
Step-by-step guides to packaging compliance programs, from first producer assessment through registration, data collection, and annual filing.
June 29, 2026
EPR Producer Registration: Step-by-Step Checklist
Registration is the gateway to Extended Producer Responsibility compliance, and missing it is one of the most common ways brands fall out of compliance before they have even filed a report. This checklist walks through what producers need to confirm, gather, and complete.
June 29, 2026
Your First EPR Report: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
The first Extended Producer Responsibility report is the one that intimidates teams the most. Once you understand the sequence, confirm obligation, gather packaging data, classify materials, calculate quantities, and submit through the right channel, the process becomes repeatable.
June 29, 2026
Private Label & Store Brands: Who Files EPR?
Private label and store brand products create one of the most common points of confusion in packaging EPR: when a retailer sells a product under its own brand but a third party manufactures it, which company is the "producer" responsible for registering, reporting, and paying fees?
June 29, 2026
Packaging EPR: Canada vs. the US Compared
For brands expanding across North America, packaging Extended Producer Responsibility looks deceptively similar on both sides of the border, but the maturity, structure, and administration of these programs differ in ways that shape compliance strategy.
June 29, 2026
Do EPR Fees Get Passed On to Consumers?
A frequent question from finance and packaging teams once an EPR program goes live: who actually pays the fee, the producer, the retailer, or the shopper at the shelf? The short answer is that EPR fees behave like any other input cost, and where they ultimately land depends on the structure of the market, not on what the statute says.
March 30, 2026
What is EPR? Extended Producer Responsibility
EPR is reshaping how brands think about packaging, shifting financial responsibility for waste management from municipalities to the producers who create the packaging.
May 2, 2026
What a PRO Does in EPR: Roles and Duties
Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs) sit at the center of every modern packaging EPR program. Here is what a PRO actually does, what producers must do in return, and where the line falls.