Sustainable Solutions
Comprehensive Sustainability Solutions for Your Packaging Needs
Solutions for Every Stage of Your Sustainability Journey
Adept Group brings together leading sustainability experts in the packaging industry to assist clients in reducing waste, evaluating and quantifying environmental impact, staying ahead of sustainability regulations, optimizing efficiency, developing environmentally responsible packaging solutions, and enabling a circular economy.
- Expertise: Packaging Engineers and Subject Matter Experts in paper, plastic, and data and reporting
- Resources: Innovators who embody/practice our sustainability approach with holistic thinking
- Accelerators: Digital and technical tools to accelerate results
- Partner Ecosystem: Qualified and vetted strategic partners for vertically integrated solutions for software and manufacturing
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): Are You Ready?
EPR laws are expanding across the U.S. and internationally, making companies responsible for the full lifecycle of their packaging. Non-compliance can lead to significant fees and risks.
- EPR is mandatory – Regulations are already being put in place in multiple states.
- Producers pay – Companies must fund packaging end-of-life management.
- Sustainability-driven – EPR promotes better packaging design and a stronger PCR supply chain.
Sign up for a one-on-one, no-cost EPR Readiness Workshop to assess your EPR obligations, identify compliance gaps, and develop a strategic plan.
Expert Sustainability Strategy & Implementation
Adept Group's sustainable packaging consultants offer expertise across a broad range of services, including strategy development, goal setting, life cycle assessment (LCA), packaging design & development, supplier validation, and sustainability consulting for brands in the CPG, food & beverage, life sciences, and industrial/hard goods industries.
Results That Speak for Themselves:
Data-Driven Sustainability in Action
The impact of our sustainability consulting is as varied as the needs and goals of our clients. Our ESG consultants helped:
- A leading food manufacturer transition to a performance-based corrugate specification, achieving $3.4 million in cost savings by consolidating 540 regional specs into 78 global standards, improving sourcing stability, material consistency, and supply chain continuity
- A major beverage brand converted 155 million bottles from virgin material to post-consumer recycled PET
- A popular e-commerce retailer pilot a switch from polybags to recyclable paper bags, addressing 21,900 metric tons of waste in 2024 alone. The broader rollout is projected to save $172 million by 2025, with additional material, labor, and transportation savings totaling $47M, $33M, and $95M, respectively
- Multiple pallet optimization projects across clients, which achieved $300,000+ in annual savings, and an additional $719,000 from distribution-to-transport improvements
Learn How Adept Can Drive Your Sustainability Initiatives Today!
Sustainability Services to Meet You Where You Are
We offer a full suite of sustainability consulting and project management services, including:
- Expert guidance in developing a sustainability strategy that aligns with your long-term business goals
- Offering specialized support across industries
- EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) compliance strategy
- Comprehensive sustainability audit checklists to identify improvement opportunities
- Support from top sustainability audit companies and sustainability auditing consultants
- Design for sustainability with a focus on eco-modulation, conducting audits to identify packaging changes that reduce environmental impact and unlock potential fee reductions under EPR programs
- Conducting life cycle analysis assessments to quantify environmental impact
- Implementing product life cycle assessment methodologies to support data-driven decision-making
- Third party validated LCA's for EPR reporting
- Leading R&D for paper-based packaging innovations
- Transitioning to fiber-based materials for reduced reliance on plastic
- Enhancing packaging with increased recycled content materials, including PCR packaging and aligning with PCR regulations
- Advancing paper flow wrap development as an alternative to plastic for:
- Food packaging: snacks, chocolate bars, bakery products, dry foods
- Personal care: soap bars, wet wipes, single-use hygiene products
- Pharmaceuticals: blister pack alternatives, secondary packaging
- Implementing QR codes and 2D barcodes for improved product traceability and consumer engagement
- Navigating packaging regulatory compliance to meet evolving sustainability and safety standards
- Expertise in validated isothermal pharma packaging solutions
- Supporting brands in meeting Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance through data collection, validation, and reporting
- Ensuring accurate submission of packaging specifications for state regulations, mitigating risks of incorrect reporting and penalties
Our Expertise
Adept group has more than 10 years’ experience developing, implementing and improving on our Packing Development Center of Excellence model for brands of all sizes and in all industries.
Our broad range of experience across CPG, food & beverage, life sciences and industrial/hard goods industries allows us to understand organizational challenges and provide training and high-level insights optimized for growth.
We provide a modular architecture that can be aligned with an organization’s dynamic needs and geared to implement seamlessly to meet cross-functional goals.