EPSS -Environmental Packaging Software
EPSS is a unique software program that puts important environmental packaging data at managers` fingertips. With EPSS, managers can easily build a packaging database to help ensure compliance with packaging regulations and standards, track and trend performance, and guide environmental labeling and green marketing activities
Description
EPSS, KCI`s environmental packaging software, manages information, including environmental data, pertaining to consumer products and their packaging components. The software calculates and reports the environmental characteristics (e.g., recycled content, degradability, excess packaging, chemical constituents) of products and their packaging, based on the individual components and the vendor-supplied materials used to formulate the components. The software also calculates the producer responsibility obligations (packaging fees) for countries throughout the world and generates reports suitable for submission to the country organizations.
Using EPSS, managers are able to determine the overall environmental characteristics of products and their packaging: to determine the types of environmental marketing labels that could be applied to products, to help determine the quantity/volume of packaging disposed, and to respond to packaging guidelines: standards, and regulations.
EPSS helps companies manage...
- Packaging obligation (fee) calculation and reporting
- Compliance with CEN Packaging Standards (Essential Requirements)
- Packaging reduction and design-for-environment initiatives
- Compliance with additional environmental packaging regulations and standards
Users
Who Uses EPSS?
Consumer Products Companies: Because of its open design, EPSS can be used by any company that manufactures packaged products for retail or commercial sale. Such companies fall across a broad range of industries, including:
- appliances
- computers and electronics
- cosmetics and health care
- household consumables
- office products
- toys/games
Packaging Companies: EPSS can alsbe useful tmanufacturers/suppliers of packaging materials, whare increasingly being required by their customers tsupply environmental information about the materials they provide. Examples include companies that manufacture/supply:
- boxes
- labels
- laminated packaging materials
- paper and paperboard
- plastic containers, film, bags, resin
- shrinkwrap
- other shipping containers
Company Personnel: Within a company, EPSS is typically used by the following personnel:
- environmental managers (determine environmental characteristics of products, assess
- impact of proposed/actual packaging restrictions, document improvement in
- environmental performance) packaging engineers (record and manage packaging information, generate packaging
- specification reports, test impact of different packaging designs/materials) marketing managers (determine whether environmental marketing claims can be
- made for products)
How EPSS Works
In EPSS: product and packaging data are entered (or imported) into the system. Once data are within the system, calculating country-specific fees and generating packaging-related reports -including country-specific fee reports - is as simple as a few clicks of the mouse. The basic types of data the are entered into the system include:
- basic product information
- packaging components for each product
- environmental and composition information about packaging materials
- sales-related information