TARE
Tare weight is what you get billed on. Know your estimated EPR exposure before the invoice lands.
TARE turns your SKU-level packaging data into transparent, source-cited EPR fee estimates for every US state with a producer responsibility law.
The problem
US Extended Producer Responsibility programs are new, and the rules are not uniform. Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, Maryland and Washington each define covered material, reporting thresholds and eco-modulation differently, so the same SKU can be treated several ways at once. Working that out by hand from SKU-level packaging data is slow, hard to audit, and easy to get wrong.
What TARE does
TARE is a modelling tool. It estimates what your packaging is likely to be charged in each state, and shows the arithmetic behind every number.
Fee estimates for every US EPR state. Map your SKU-level packaging data once, then get estimates for Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, Maryland and Washington.
Model a packaging change before you make it. Switch a material, cut a gram, remove a component, and see how the estimated charges move.
Every rate cites its public source. Each figure is traceable to the statute, regulation or published fee schedule it came from.
Export a board-ready report. A clean summary with assumptions, methodology and sources attached, ready to circulate internally.
Why you can defend the numbers
An estimate is only useful if you can show where it came from. TARE is built so that any figure it produces can be traced back to a public document and reproduced by someone else.
Every rate traces to a published public source. Statutes, regulations, and regulator or PRO fee schedules, cited inline and dated, so you can check the original.
Estimates are labelled as estimates. Nothing is presented as an invoice, a determination or a final amount, anywhere in the product or the export.
The methodology is written down. Material categories, weight basis, thresholds and eco-modulation logic are documented, versioned and open to challenge.
How it works
Three steps, using the packaging data you already keep.
Upload your packaging data. A CSV or Excel export of SKUs, components, materials and weights. No new system to implement.
Review the estimated fees by state. TARE applies each state's published rates and shows estimated charges per SKU, per material and in total.
Export the sourced report. Download the figures with assumptions, methodology notes and a citation for every rate used.
Pricing
Pricing depends on how many SKUs you report and how many states you report in. Book a demo for pricing.
Book a demo
Thirty minutes, with your own data if you want. We will show you the model, the sources and the limits of what it can tell you. Or email [contact email].
Modelled estimates — not a bill or professional advice. Figures may differ from what a regulator or producer responsibility organization actually invoices.
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