Product and Packaging Sustainability

At 3R, we see sustainable products and packaging not only as a critical opportunity but a necessity in driving environmental and business value.

We support our clients in a continuous journey to keep advancing the sustainability of your products and packaging, empowering you to achieve waste, decarbonization, and circularity goals through integrated solutions that optimize compliance, product design, and resource efficiency.

How we can help 

Regulatory Compliance Support

Impact Assessments

Target Setting and Roadmaps

Circular Product Design

Sustainable Packaging

Certifications

Capabilities Building

Reduce environmental impact, Add business value

Products and packaging have a significant impact on your waste and carbon footprint and are subject to continuously evolving regulations. By prioritizing environmentally preferred materials and circular design, you can reduce your footprint, resonate with consumers, and strengthen brand positioning.

Our holistic solutions help you navigate regulations, set practical targets, assess impacts, and innovate for circularity, decarbonization, and efficiency. 

Fraiser and Christina Product and Packaging team Members

Our Services

Regulatory Compliance Support
Navigate the evolving regulatory landscape, including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), and Digital Product Passports with expert guidance to prepare for compliance and optimize fees. 
Impact Assessments (LCAs, PCFs, EPDs, HPDs)
Quantifying the impact of your product and packaging is critical to reducing your environmental footprint and ensuring you are a preferred supplier for your customers. Available impact assessments include Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), Health Product Declarations (HPD), and waste modeling.
Target Setting and Roadmaps

Set practical sustainability goals and design actionable roadmaps to drive measurable progress in sustainable product and packaging development. Our expertise in enterprise alignment and implementation ensures your initiatives align with business objectives and can navigate complex financial and supply chain dynamics to deliver cost-effective, scalable solutions. We focus on key areas such as environmentally preferred materials (i.e. recycled and renewable content), material reduction, emissions and water usage reduction, waste minimization, product durability, end-of-life management, ethical sourcing, and transparency.

Circular Product Design

Design products with environmentally-preferred and low-carbon materials to minimize waste and maximize resource utilization, aligning with circular economy principles. Our approach integrates robust supply chain planning, logistics, and back-end processes to ensure seamless implementation of circularity, enabling disassembly, repair, refurbishment, and recycling. By addressing both design and operational challenges, we drive sustainable outcomes across the product lifecycle. 

Sustainable Packaging
Evaluate your portfolio to determine where you can reduce your waste and carbon impact, ensure compliance with upcoming regulations, and excite your customers with more sustainable packaging options. From supporting you in measuring & reporting packaging usage for EPR compliance to piloting new designs that use less and more sustainable materials, 3R can help you maximize the business value of more sustainable packaging. 
Certifications
Achieve Cradle to Cradle, Declare, GreenScreen, CarbonNeutral, and Living Product Challenge certifications to validate product sustainability, ensure safety for human health, and build trust with your customers about the sustainability of your products.
Capabilities Building
Enable the knowledge and build the skills needed to advance product sustainability in your organization, embedding practical guidance and toolkits, from design guides for product designers to sourcing frameworks for procurement teams, into your operating model and team culture. 
Linear And circular economy figure

Delivering business value through circular innovation

As industries transition away from the traditional take–make–waste model, adopting a circular approach not only reduces environmental impact but also provides substantial business value. Circularity ensures materials are sourced, used, and repurposed responsibly throughout a product’s life cycle.

Supply Chain Resilience: Build robust supply chains by reducing reliance on finite resources and insecure supply chains.

Waste Reduction and Decarbonization: Minimize waste and carbon through material reduction, reuse, recycling, and environmentally preferred design.

Cost Savings: Optimize resource use and reduce disposal costs for long-term savings.

Market Retention: Strengthen market position by meeting demand for sustainable products.

Increased Consumer Loyalty: Attract and retain customers who prioritize eco-friendly brands.

Product Credibility: Enhance product trustworthiness through transparent and certified practices.

Stakeholder Buy-In: Gain support from investors, partners, and regulators by demonstrating commitment to circularity.

3R Webinar on EPR

In this webinar, Fraiser Opel and Christina Fontanesi of 3R break down the evolving Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) landscape, highlighting what brands, manufacturers, and importers need to know to stay compliant and avoid penalties.

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