Resources
Guides for packaging, sustainability and compliance teams.
Written for people who have to make the numbers add up, not for search engines.
RAM 2027
What is RAM 2027?
The Recyclability Assessment Methodology in plain English: who must use it, what it assesses and how green, amber and red are decided.
4 min read
RAM 2027
RAM 2027 for beauty and cosmetics brands
The RAM criteria that bite hardest on beauty packaging, from tinted PET and carbon-black closures to metal springs and full-body sleeves.
5 min read
EPR
UK packaging EPR for beauty brands
Who is obligated, what is actually reported, and the packaging data model that makes EPR repeatable rather than a yearly scramble.
5 min read
EPR
Packaging EPR reporting deadlines
The two Report Packaging Data windows, which RAM version applies to which supply, and a preparation timeline built backwards from each window.
4 min read
RAM 2027
Green vs amber vs red packaging under RAM
How the five stage results combine into one rating, what each colour means commercially, and why an unanswered question is not a neutral one.
5 min read
Packaging data
Beauty packaging components: what data do you need?
A component-by-component data checklist for bottles, pumps, closures, labels, cartons, sleeves and sachets, mapped to RAM facts, EPR weights and whoever actually holds the answer.
6 min read
Packaging data
How pumps and closures complicate packaging recyclability
Springs, balls, gaskets and dip tubes: why dispensing systems are the hardest part of a beauty pack to rate, and where the published guidance we encode runs out.
5 min read
Fees
EPR fee modulation explained
Amber as the base fee, a 1.2 times multiplier on red, a green discount nobody can quote in advance, and how to build a forecast you can defend.
5 min read
Packaging data
Packaging master data vs EPR spreadsheets
Reusable architectures, effective-dated revisions and provenance: why a versioned packaging record outlasts a reporting spreadsheet, and how to migrate without a big-bang project.
5 min read
PPT
Plastic Packaging Tax and EPR: what data overlaps?
Weights, polymers, recycled content and evidence serve both regimes if you capture them once. The purposes, and the returns, stay separate.
4 min read
Suppliers
Supplier packaging data checklist
What to ask each packaging supplier, the evidence to request alongside the answer, and how to phrase requests so you get facts instead of reassurance.
6 min read
Fees
Beauty packaging redesign and EPR fees
Clone, change, reassess, compare: how to model a packaging change against RAM and fees, and how to report the result as an indicative difference rather than a saving.
5 min read