Schedule a 20-minute fit check.

A fit check is a practical review of your packaging documentation and filing timeline. We will assess whether your records are ready for our workflow, outline clear next steps, and identify any threshold questions that should be reviewed by your legal counsel.

When to bring in Producer Ledger

• Your packaging specifications and drawings are scattered across multiple inboxes, and your team lacks a single bill of materials.
• Your co-packers or overseas suppliers have not responded to requests for tare weights and material layer breakdowns.
• You received a notification from Circular Action Alliance and leadership needs a verified assessment of your obligations.
• Your catalog contains hundreds of SKUs that share standard boxes and pouches, but nobody has consolidated them into configurations.
• You were provided with an estimated EPR fee budget, but no one can verify which published schedule version or calculation rules were used.

What to share in your initial email

To begin, send a message to alex@producerledger.com with:

• The corporate entities and consumer brands selling into California, Oregon, or Colorado
• Your primary distribution channels (retail, wholesale, DTC, or 3PL fulfillment)
• An estimate of your unique packaging configurations (rather than total product SKUs)
• A brief description of how packaging data is currently stored (ERP extracts, PDF drawings, or physical samples)
• Any active registrations or reports submitted during prior program years

Free tool: supplier specification request template

If your procurement team needs to gather technical packaging data from vendors today, you are welcome to use this email template. It is designed to collect physical facts and verifiable documentation rather than asking suppliers to interpret complex statutory categories:

Subject: Packaging specification request — [parts/products] — due [date]

Hi [Name],

[Company] is assembling packaging data for state EPR compliance reporting. Please provide the latest specification or signed declaration for the parts listed below.

For each component, please provide:
1. Supplier part number and specification/version date;
2. Component name and packaging function (primary container, closure, secondary carton, tertiary shipper);
3. Material(s), resin identification code, and rigid vs. flexible form;
4. Component tare mass in grams and stated manufacturing tolerance;
5. Multi-layer, barrier, coating, or laminate construction by material layer (where applicable);
6. Attached component details (labels, closures, adhesives, inks);
7. Post-consumer recycled content percentage and calculation standard (if claimed);
8. Certified compostable standard, certifier, certificate ID, and expiration (if claimed);
9. Effective production dates and finished products using the part.

Please attach technical documentation (spec sheet, drawing, or signed declaration) rather than estimating. If a value is unavailable, mark it "unavailable" and identify the technical contact who may know.

Thank you,
[Your Name / Title]