Unpac

Core Features

Unpac approaches EPR primarily as a packaging-data management problem. Its workflow is organized around collecting, analyzing, completing and reporting data, with packaging information structured at SKU and component level so it can be translated into the differing requirements of individual EPR programs. Key features include:

• Packaging Data Consolidation: Ingests information from spreadsheets, PDFs, ERP extracts and supplier files and organizes it into a centralized packaging-data repository.

• Data Validation: Automatically surfaces missing information, conflicts and inconsistencies that could affect EPR reporting or fee calculations.

• Supplier Data Collection: Automates outreach to suppliers to obtain missing packaging specifications and complete compliance datasets.

• Multi-Jurisdiction Reporting: Converts the underlying packaging dataset into jurisdiction-specific EPR reporting outputs, avoiding separate data-management processes for each program.

• Fee Exposure Analysis: Provides visibility into EPR fee exposure, helping businesses understand how packaging characteristics and data quality affect expected compliance costs.

• Eco-Modulation Analysis: Supports simulations showing how packaging changes can affect EPR fees and packaging performance under applicable fee structures.

• Alerts/Notifications: Provides alerts and notifications to help users track relevant compliance requirements, reporting activities, and data-related actions.

• Customizable Dashboards: Offers customizable dashboards that allow organizations to monitor packaging data, compliance activities, and other relevant information according to their needs.

• Multi-Country Compliance Tracking: Supports compliance tracking across multiple countries and jurisdictions, helping organizations manage requirements in the U.S., EU, and UK from a common packaging dataset.

• Recyclability & Design Assessment: Uses packaging data to support recyclability and design assessments, helping businesses identify opportunities to reduce EPR fees and packaging costs while designing and placing more sustainable packaging on the market.

Closing Insights

Unpac is particularly relevant to brands with large SKU portfolios because EPR reporting increasingly depends on granular packaging information that may be scattered across departments, suppliers and systems. Andis, a grooming-products manufacturer, used Unpac for Oregon EPR reporting; the platform extracted around 80% of the required information from existing documentation and helped close the remaining data gaps. Sustainability and compliance consultancy RecycleMe has used the platform for clients ranging from a brand with fewer than 1,000 SKUs to one with more than 30,000.

Unpac is primarily geared toward enterprise and upper mid-market physical-goods companies selling into the U.S., EU or UK, particularly organizations whose packaging data is fragmented across suppliers, spreadsheets and ERP systems. The platform is designed for businesses that need to report across multiple jurisdictions from a single dataset and want to use that same information both to reduce EPR fees and packaging costs and to design and place more sustainable packaging on the market. Unpac also serves consultants and channel partners seeking to add an automated data-management and reporting layer to their services.

The platform’s reach expanded in December 2025 through an exclusive strategic alliance with FoodChain ID, combining Unpac’s software with FoodChain ID’s regulatory expertise for food and beverage companies. The partnership targets multi-state U.S. EPR compliance while using packaging data to identify potential fee and packaging-cost reductions. This becomes increasingly useful as U.S. requirements diverge by state and reporting scrutiny increases. Instead of rebuilding spreadsheets for each jurisdiction, organizations can maintain a structured packaging record that can be reused as regulations and reporting cycles change.