| EPR Compliance | Waste Regulation |
| Regulatory Tracking and Horizon Scanning | Circularity Strategy and Roadmap (packaging, plastics, electronics, batteries and textiles or other materials) |
epr compliance
UNDERSTANDING your challenge
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has achieved headline status since it suddenly became a far greater cost and complexity burden to businesses across the entire supply chain.
- Tracking upcoming regulatory changes
- New reporting requirements on material characteristics,
- Increasing customer sustainability data requests and verification
- Recycled content incentives, taxes, and certification
- x10 cost increases on packaging recycling
- Customer pressure to use more eco-design principles
- Innovation in compliance tools offering competitive advantages
- Maintaining a compliant product that can be sold to international markets
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Data has become commoditised and traded between stakeholders. Data leads to costs through recycling targets and modulated fees but still must remain compliant to prevent enforcement action. But this all takes too much time. Whether it is packaging, textiles, electronics, batteries, or one of the other niche product categories, all now have EPR compliance requirements.
Everyone has to comply with their regulatory requirements, but how? It takes a lot of time, through a steep and painful learning curve, and can result in a bigger cost for lost time or mistakes (e.g. misreporting, overly conservative estimates, misinterpretations) made along the way. Getting a grip on all these challenges is now mandatory to be compliant and remain competitive in the market.
epr compliance solution – simplify the complexity
CircuMetrics offers expert support, refined over years of operational experience and the delivery of multiple client annual compliance solutions. These EPR compliance challenges are becoming an increasing burden on the day-to-day business, so a new approach is needed. We bring our deep subject matter expertise. By learning about our clients operations, products and customer markets, we can help to establish a robust standard operating procedure to mitigate the effects of increasing reporting requirements. Getting into compliance, preparing for the future, exploring solutions to reduce those costs and administrative burdens, takes away all that pain. CircuMetrics can cover: regulatory updates and reviews, EPR registration setup, compliance process development, statutory data reporting, as well as strategic planning to reduce costs and maximise the benefits of what is traditionally an overhead to the business.
Simplifying and clarifying those interpretations of the law from the complex breadth of the regulation, avoids non-compliance, mitigates cost pressures, and allows clients to re-focus on day-to-day business. Compliance health checks address known and unknown gaps, regulatory review brings clarity to the uncharted regulatory landscape, and compliance roadmaps and action plan layout solutions to remedy compliance problems.
epr compliance value
Bringing clients into compliance is achieved through a series of steps, including briefing on the latest requirements, review of business operations, then implementation of compliance actions using preferred local partners. This tried and tested approach is fast and achieves the goal of minimising the cost of getting into compliance.
Managing the process on our clients behalf brings a clear outcome to empower your team to manage the processes into the future and be prepared for upcoming changes. Providing compliant evidence to keep sales channels open and avoiding enforcement action or brand damage can be achieved with correct application of laws and guidance to our clients. Once onboarded, standard operating procedures help to maintain compliance and data processes. Alternatively, outsourcing this data work allows flexibility in oversight, and assures updates are communicated and actioned across the business in future years. CircuMetrics expert support brings lowered risk, uncovers avoidable costs and puts improved compliance systems into our clients hands.
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Compliance is cyclical and written into law, meaning dates and requirements are fixed. Deadlines approach fast (and are often different per country and regime) and are quickly followed up by compliance partners if deadlines are missed. With some systems relying on registration or data acceptance from regulating authorities or compliance partners, project plans need to be carefully worked backwards to prepare and understand immediate actions to be taken.
CircuMetrics guides clients and gather the records necessary to register and/or comply with EPR. Working within the business alongside our clients’ own team helps to quickly but accurately achieve the compliance goal, whilst benefiting from outsourced expertise.
Waste regulation
UNDERSTANDING your challenge
- How to collect, store and transport waste?
- How to introduce reuse and increase recycling?
- Why are costs and taxes for managing waste rising?
- What are the policies that are changing to make businesses more responsible for how they manage waste on site?
- Why must businesses do more and take physical and financial responsibility for those products and waste materials they introduce?
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Whether it’s complying with the minimum requirements, or establishing a new takeback program, red tape is a burden on time and money.
Waste compliance is evolving. Most recently, England mandated Simpler Recycling in March 2025 that will impact nearly all businesses (Wales and Scotland already have measures). Elsewhere, global restrictions on exports of waste under the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulation will close many non-OECD export markets.
It’s time to get compliant and get better value from waste management activities.
Waste regulation solution – simplify the complexity
Taking a risk-based approach to bringing waste collection activities into compliance helps to align with policy strategies which mandate the requirements of the waste holders. Understanding the types, volumes and locations of those materials allows mapping of the landscape before designing a compliant system that is fit for purpose. Classifying and segregating waste into the right container gets the process started and defines the operational and regulatory requirements. CircuMetrics helps to put this into practice cost effectively across all sites, operations and teams, by avoiding gold plating supplier solutions. Designing a bespoke roadmap approach to waste compliance, we can quickly turn around projects to meet our clients’ needs.
waste regulation value
Waste is visible when there is a problem, and invisible with the right processes, value-driven services and a trained team. When it’s visible, it’s already too late. Clients want a ‘fit-and-forget’ solution, so we strive to develop compliance systems that recognise business and process needs that can operate in the background. These offer lower direct and indirect costs as well as assurances of compliance and brand reputation. With greater focus on plastics, sustainability and corporate commitments, good waste management performance can feature in positive news rather than just a cost overhead.
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We strive to find quick and lasting waste compliance solutions, working within and beside our clients’ team. Once complete, we can leave our clients with the tools and knowledge to move forwards and succeed. We don’t like complicated reports that are left on the shelf or remote management with zero operational experience. CircuMetrics strives for actionable results and measured insights that get our clients back into compliance, and free to focus on the day job.
regulatory tracking and horizon scanning
UNDERSTANDING your challenge
Legislation in the sustainability sector is growing, and no less for product stewardship measures. Brands, manufacturers, distributors and retailers are responsible for their actions, so mandating what standards, processes and material they use has become the norm. But how do you monitor those regulations?
- What is your level of awareness of regulatory requirements across all your customer markets?
- How are you tracking your regulatory updates?
- Do you have a subscription to 3rd party software, and what do you do with the results?
- How do you manually search out topics, and what does it mean?
- How do you know what and where to look?
- Does your customer tell you there is a problem or do you know what’s required already?
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Compliance is mandatory for our clients’ operations and products. You can work for the here-and-now and the latest updates. Or maybe you have an opportunity to look forwards more strategically to get ahead of the curve. Getting to an answer that applies to the product or business activity is essential to being compliant – but at what time, risk and commercial cost? Even once the legalese text (or statutory guidance if you are lucky), the application still leaves many unanswered questions. But by the time you are researching, it’s often the case that swift actions must follow your findings – are you confident enough to act on them? Confidence, clarity and compliance need to go together – here is where CircuMetrics step in to guide our clients.
Regulation tracking solution – simplify the complexity
The regulatory review process typically follows these steps to ensure a thorough approach and deliver a clear action plan to address any non-compliance areas:
- Define scope of legislation review
- Map regulatory landscape
- Gap analysis of non-compliance
- Risk assessment & prioritisation
- Action plan
- Monitoring and continuous improvement
This example framework gives clients the outcomes they need to see – what’s required, what is working, what needs to change. Then packaged into a self-managed process or tool, to maintain compliance and track any future updates on those items. Depending on the level of assistance needed, further support can be provided to implement those actions to quickly comply. Working with leading compliance partners across the UK and Europe on topics like EPR and waste management, CircuMetrics can accelerate any necessary implementing actions.
Regulation tracking value
Placing clients in a position where they understand the latest relevant regulations mitigates business risk, keeps product selling, and avoids brand and reputational damage. The costs of going down the non-compliance path are immeasurable and even harder to repair. With CircuMetrics support, we help our clients to grasp the regulations in good time and with a clear impact action plan to give evidence-based assurance. This can be backed by ad-hoc guidance and consulting retention services, in addition to documented processes and sources for future regulatory reviews. When regulators or business leaders question if the latest laws on materials, supply chain or product sales are imbedded in business processes, regulatory tracking evidence provides the assurances those leaders need to see. Requirements are visible and in focus.
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Carrying out a horizon scan reviews, or associated compliance evaluation is critical to leaders of the business for their plans and leadership decisions. Bringing in an expert to carry out a health check of the business on specified regulations or themes is the fastest way to learn, comply or update compliance strategies to recognise a moving landscape of product or operational compliance. Taking a high-level discovery journey to familiarise yourself with the team and business operations, CircuMetrics targets the highest impact areas and risk hot spots that are in scope. With a preference to carrying out initial work on site in partnership, we use interviews, site investigations and other stakeholder engagement activities. This reduces the risk and time costs of trying to answer these questions without an expert advisor. CircuMetrics deliverables set out practical and relatable results, with clear actions to implement.
Circularity strategy and roadmap – packaging, plastics, electronics, batteries and textiles or other materials
UNDERSTANDING your challenge
The business is now compliant, but feels like it is at the mercy of circular economy measures and competition. It needs to stop the fire-fighting approach of change management, and instead get ahead of these requirements to improve the resilience of the supply chain and control those budgets.
- What is the circular economy strategy, and how does that align to corporate strategy?
- Where is the clarity in a circularity roadmap?
- Why are there inconsistencies in eco-design and missing tools for product development?
- How to harmonise and set common goals across different functional teams (design, procurement, manufacturing, supply, returns)?
- What is the regulatory horizon going to mean for business?
- How to reduce high-risk claims and communications applied to products in a ultra-competitive market?
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Strategic management needs stakeholders like suppliers and customers as well as departmental leadership within the business. But they are not yet joined up, and often work autonomously towards their own respective targets. It feels stalled and like everyone is just getting by. How does business pull together and get ahead of business-as-usual? It is time to look forward, reassess corporate strategies and integrate circularity into future goals. Leadership teams see competitors taking actionable measures to realise this value, but what does it mean to your product? The lack of clarity and unknowns is holding the business back. CircuMetrics helps to discover the opportunity and potential, and define actionable steps to achieve the goal.
circularity strategy and roadmap solution – simplify the complexity
The strategy development takes a recognised approach, typically following these main steps in a project:
- A baseline and stakeholder engagement exercise will audit current operations, material flows, and sustainability performance while engaging key internal and external stakeholders.
- A vision & objective setting stage defines a clear circular economy vision with measurable goals aligned to business priorities and regulatory imperatives.
- A landscape analysis will assess emerging market trends, competitive forces, and evolving legislation to pinpoint drivers and risks.
- An opportunity mapping and prioritisation stage identifies potential circular initiatives across the value chain, evaluates options, and shortlists those with the highest impact.
- A roadmap and implementation planning step develops an actionable strategy with clear milestones, resource allocation, and change management plans.
- An execution and continuous improvement process implements the strategy, monitors performance using relevant KPIs, and adapts the plan based on ongoing insights and market shifts.
CircuMetrics typically uses this structured approach to achieve a robust and dynamic circular economy strategy that is both actionable and resilient.
There are many inputs to developing a strategy, requiring a greater degree of engagement and ideation. There is the value of collaboration in these steps; ownership, understanding and belief in the plan, but creating a strategy needs a toolkit of skills and knowledge. Where to start? Who to involve? How to engage suppliers and customers? What does good look like in this sector or others? The strategy development process will unlock the answers to these and many other questions.
circularity strategy and roadmap value
The benefits and value of a circularity strategy will help your business and product get ahead of regulatory and competitor challenges. Avoid being left behind or caught off-guard when it comes to product transparency, sustainability metrics, increasing customer reporting and contributions towards customers own circularity strategies.
With the vision, objectives and next steps towards achieving the agreed goals laid out in a circularity strategy, these externalities should not come as a surprise. Be prepared; understand the business case to support innovation. Having those metrics available to report and share reinforces customer relationships, allows our clients to track progress and reduces risks in the supply chain more broadly.
Taking a strategic approach is a collective process and reduces the likelihood of silos and isolation of functional teams. The alignment gives ownership and highlights mutual benefits rather than pulling in opposite directions.
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Circularity strategy and roadmap gets you ahead of the curve and the competition. Using the recognised approach ensures a consistent outcome. Some of the benefits may include; supplier approvals become easier, sales and marketing have another string to their bow, closer supplier and customer relationships and strengthened partnerships.
By working with our clients functional teams, it gets everyone on the same page early on. Their needs and ideas are recognised. It is together, not them and us. We become part of your team, leading through the strategy development stages. The strategies are not static, so monitoring, review and updates are part of the journey. But having the objectives defined and aligned to wider corporate ambitions brings our client wide engagement and support, increasing the likelihood of success in the defined timeline.
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