Sustainable Solutions
Solutions for every part of your Sustainability Journey
Adept Group has assembled the top sustainability experts in the packaging industry to help clients reduce waste, evaluate and quantify environmental impact, stay ahead of sustainability regulations, optimize efficiency, develop eco-friendly packaging solutions and enable the circular economy.
From well-funded startups to established industry leaders, the Adept team is able to understand the needs of our clients and tailor solutions to match their sustainability goals.
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.
Be Prepared: Understand Your Obligations & Optimize Compliance
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.
Services to Meet you Where You Are
Adept Group’s sustainable packaging consultants provide expertise through 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 science and industrial/hard goods industries.
Meaningful progress toward sustainability goals often calls for significant change to the status quo.
While many packaging teams have strong relationships with traditional suppliers, our relationships with innovative suppliers allow us to identify sustainable packaging materials (biodegradable packaging, recyclable materials, etc.) that best fit our clients’ needs and budgets.
Experience Led, Backed by Data
Thorough analysis of the impact packaging has on the environment throughout its life cycle, from material extraction through end of life, provides our clients’ packaging departments with solutions backed by data that helps secure buy-in from leadership across their organizations, facilitates third-party certification, and enables brands to communicate their sustainability progress in their marketing claims to consumers and ESG reporting to consumers, investors and other key stakeholders.
The impact of our sustainability consulting is as varied as the needs and goals of our clients. Our ESG consultants helped:
- A major beverage brand convert 155 million bottles from virgin material to post-consumer recycled PET
- Converted a CPG client to new packaging that reduced corrugate material use by 25% and plastic shipper bag size by 50%,
- Developed a sustainable beverage packaging solution that helped a carbonated soft drink business reduce closure weight by 0.08 grams per closure
From material reduction measured in thousands of tons per year to leading sustainable packaging solutions that also drive hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost reduction, our Adept sustainability engineers can tailor solutions to move the needle on the metrics most important to our clients’ overall goals.
Iconic Brands Deserve Expert Sustainable Packaging Specialists
The variety of expertise across the Adept team allows us to integrate sustainability progress into almost any Eco packaging project, including shipper and pallet optimization projects that reduce carbon emissions and quality improvements that reduce waste via damaged product and reverse logistics. Our understanding of current and upcoming sustainability regulations helps clients avoid missteps that could result in costly fines and the potential for lost sales as a result of damage to brand reputation.
Collaboration across our nationwide team of experienced packaging professionals enables thorough vetting of environmentally friendly solutions and an approach that considers all angles when addressing sustainable product packaging challenges.
Our team of sustainability consultants includes ISTA and ASTM committee members, APASS certified packaging professionals and organization-wide Sustainable Packaging Coalition membership. Whether you aim to be a recognized industry leader in sustainable packaging or your brand is taking its first steps to a more sustainable future, Adept Group has you covered.
Common Sustainability Projects
- Sustainable Strategy Development
- Sustainable Consulting and Project Management
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Sustainability Audit
- Feasibility Assessments
- Innovation and Ideation
- Digital Packaging Enhancements
- Regulatory Compliance
- Package Validation and Qualification
- Pilot and Prototype Development
- Recyclable Packaging
- Compostable Packaging
- ESG Consulting
- Third-Party Certification Support
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.