Gartner® Report: Mitigate Multimillion-Dollar Packaging Risks

In this Gartner® report, we think you’ll learn:

• Why packaging sustainability has shifted from a voluntary goal to a regulatory mandate for obligated producers
• How EPR laws in North America and the EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) translate into fees that can reach millions of dollars annually
• The specific actions Gartner recommends to mitigate risk — from designating compliance leadership to establishing a packaging data strategy
• Why centralized packaging specification data is central to compliance, fee calculation, and packaging reduction baselines

Gartner, How to Mitigate Multimillion-Dollar Risks From Packaging Laws, John Blake, Luca Gattoni-Celli, 20 April 2026.

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Specright now serves major food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, retailers, manufacturers, and packaging suppliers and more, helping them digitize and standardize specification data and transform product innovation to meet today’s sustainability, compliance, and operational demands.

“Specright enables us to track everything from the early stags of development, to production and end of life. Preparing to use Specright forced us to hold up a mirror and absorb a lot of reflective moments. It was very eye-opening and we feel much better prepared for the future now.”

Brittny Ohr

Director of Product Management, Sugar Foods

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