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Know what packaging EPR will cost, before the invoice arrives.
Upload your packaging data once. TARE calculates your estimated EPR exposure across U.S. and Canadian programs, shows exactly how each fee was calculated, and lets you model changes that could reduce it.
EPR turns packaging data into a financial liability.
Every program has its own material categories, thresholds, fee schedules and modulation rules. A package that costs one amount in Oregon can be treated completely differently in California, Colorado or Ontario.For companies managing hundreds or thousands of SKUs, calculating that exposure manually means maintaining multiple rule sets, fee schedules and spreadsheets, and updating them as programs change.TARE does that work in one model.
Inside TARE
From packaging data to EPR decisions.
Know what you are likely to pay. TARE prices your packaging by material and program, from individual components through to total portfolio exposure.
See what a change could save. Change a material, reduce weight, increase recycled content or remove a component. TARE re-runs the applicable program logic and shows the estimated impact. The figures shown come from a sample portfolio.
Manage multiple programs in one place. Use the same packaging portfolio across the programs that apply to your business, with program status and upcoming reporting dates alongside the numbers.
Find the packaging changes worth making.
A fee estimate tells you your exposure. TARE's reduction modeling helps you understand what you can do about it.
Reduce weight. See what removing material from high-volume packaging could mean for annual EPR fees.
Change materials. Compare alternatives using the actual program rules that apply to each jurisdiction.
Increase recycled content. See where recycled content affects the applicable fee, and where it does not.
Build scenarios. Combine interventions and separate the impact of each change from the cumulative result.
No black box.
Someone else can review the result without taking TARE's word for it.
See the calculation. TARE shows how your packaging data becomes an estimated fee.
See the source. Published rates link directly to the underlying regulator, PRO or fee schedule.
See the assumptions. Material classifications, thresholds, weight basis and applicable program logic are documented.
See the level of certainty. Published rates, modeled estimates and in-development programs are clearly distinguished.
How it works
Four steps, using the packaging data you already keep.
Upload. Use the packaging data you already have: SKUs, components, materials, weights and volumes.
Calculate. TARE applies the applicable program logic and calculates estimated exposure by material, SKU, program and portfolio.
Model. Test packaging changes and see how estimated EPR costs move before you make them.
Export. Download the results, assumptions, methodology and supporting sources for review.
Pricing
Fee Estimation. Free. Calculate estimated EPR exposure across the programs TARE supports. Published and modeled rates clearly identified, estimates at SKU, material and program level, source-linked calculations, portfolio-level exposure.
Reduction Modeling. $3,000 a year per organization. Turn your EPR exposure into packaging decisions: material substitution modeling, weight-reduction scenarios, recycled-content scenarios, multi-change comparison, and estimated savings by intervention.
Not every company needs the paid product. If your estimated EPR exposure is too small for reduction modeling to justify the cost, we will tell you.
See TARE on your packaging.
Bring a sample of your own packaging data and we will show you how TARE calculates your EPR exposure, where the numbers come from and how packaging changes affect the estimate. Or contact [email protected].
Modeled estimates are not invoices or professional advice. Actual amounts may differ from fees assessed by a regulator or producer responsibility organization.
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