Assent Inc. partnered with Lorax EPI to develop a new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging solution, designed to help manufacturers collect and manage packaging data.
"Manufacturers are beginning to confront the full weight of EPR obligations, and they're already feeling the strain of fragmented requirements, supplier engagement challenges, and looming deadlines across North America," says Catherine Cormier, chief product officer at Assent. "Assent's end-to-end solution in partnership with Lorax EPI helps manufacturers proactively take control of supplier engagement, cut costs, and stay compliant with confidence."
Key takeaways:
· This full workflow solution helps companies meet EPR packaging requirements, combining supplier data collection and jurisdiction-specific reporting files and fee calculations, bringing packaging data into a single coordinated program.
· The solution also helps companies engage suppliers at scale to collect packaging component data—such as weights, materials, and recycled content attributes—through multilingual outreach and reminders; validate data and close gaps through guided workflows, ensuring higher completeness and audit-defensible reporting; generate jurisdiction-ready outputs aligned with state, provincial, and federal requirements, including eco-modulated fee calculations where applicable; and minimize long-term risk by proactively increasing visibility and engagement into sustainability strategies.
