Compare your packaging using real-world data to reduce costs, improve recyclability, and prepare for the RAM, PPWR and global EPR.
Packaging decisions are becoming more complex, with growing pressure to balance cost, compliance and sustainability.
As EPR costs are driven by the volume of packaging placed on the market, even small reductions in SKU weight can significantly lower total tonnage and associated fees. However, without clear packaging benchmarking, businesses lack the visibility needed to prioritise improvements and identify areas of risk and opportunity.
Our Packaging Analysis and Benchmarking Services use one of the largest packaging datasets to help you clearly compare your packaging against the market.
Using data from over 65 million SKUs, we enable you to benchmark packaging performance across weight, materials, formats and recyclability — helping you translate weight reductions into measurable decreases in packaging tonnage and EPR cost exposure.
This data-driven approach gives you the evidence needed to reduce costs, improve sustainability and make more informed packaging decisions.
Read more here about how we have supported Specsavers and Nandos Grocery International Ltd. to mitigate the impacts of packaging EPR and find opportunities to improve packaging performance.
Strong data is the foundation of effective packaging benchmarking.
We assess the quality, completeness and accuracy of your packaging data to ensure it is robust enough to support benchmarking, compliance and decision-making. This includes identifying gaps at component level, improving supplier data inputs and ensuring your data aligns with packaging EPR and RAM requirements.
Using our extensive packaging database, we compare your packaging against similar products and industry benchmarks.
This enables you to:
We turn packaging benchmarking insights into practical, actionable recommendations.
Additional support services (available as part of wider Packaging Analysis):
We go beyond packaging benchmarking to turn real-world data into actionable insight, helping you improve performance across cost, compliance and sustainability.
By applying benchmarking insights, you can understand how your packaging aligns with EPR requirements, including the UK’s Recyclability Assessment Methodology (RAM), identify materials and formats impacting costs and recyclability, and compare your performance against industry benchmarks. This supports more informed packaging decisions, strengthens ESG reporting and prepares your business for evolving regulations such as the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and global EPR frameworks.
Outputs can include benchmarking reports, cost modelling insights and recyclability performance analysis to support decision-making.
With packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) and the Plastic Packaging Tax now in place, packaging design and material choices have a direct impact on compliance costs.
Our Packaging Benchmarking and Analysis Services help you identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve performance. By applying real-world data, you can assess how your packaging aligns with EPR requirements, including the RAM, and identify where changes such as material selection and lightweighting can reduce cost exposure, improve recyclability and support long-term compliance.
Our approach connects the full journey from data to action:
Data → Benchmark → Insight → Cost & compliance impact → Action plan
This ensures your packaging decisions are informed, targeted and aligned with both commercial and regulatory priorities.
Turn your packaging data into a competitive advantage. Speak to our experts to discover how benchmarking can help you reduce costs, improve recyclability and stay ahead of changing regulations.