News & Insights
The latest thinking, updates, and announcements from GreenCircle Certified.
Show Your Work: What EPR Compliance Is Asking of You
EPR compliance increasingly asks companies to do more than make packaging improvements—it asks them to show their work. Learn what EPR compliance requires from packaging producers and how third-party certification can support recycled content, recyclability, product optimization, and dematerialization claims with documented, defensible evidence.
EPR Is Here. Is Your Packaging Certified?
Extended Producer Responsibility is changing how producers manage packaging data, fees, claims, and material choices. This blog explains who may be obligated under EPR, why bill-of-materials-level documentation matters, and how third-party certification can support recycled content, recyclability, product optimization, and dematerialization claims.
Sustainable Sara: EPR Is Reshaping the Plastics Value Chain: Why Third-Party Verification Matters More Than Ever
GreenCircle Certified's in-house certification officer, Sustainable Sara, discusses how Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is reshaping recycled content claim substantiation for plastic resin manufacturers, packaging converters, and brand owners — and why traceability and third-party verification are becoming essential to EPR readiness.
EPR and Verified Recycled Content: What Manufacturers Need to Know
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is no longer on the horizon, it's here. Seven U.S. states have enacted packaging EPR laws as of early 2026, with one in five Americans now living in an EPR jurisdiction. For manufacturers of consumer goods, electronics, textiles, and packaging, the question isn't whether EPR will affect your business, but how prepared you are to respond.