Beyond the First Deadline: Navigating the Next Phase of EPR Compliance

You made it through the first Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) deadline—but did your data stand up to scrutiny? Were you as prepared as you thought? What’s changing with the next round of deadlines?

Join Lorax and Specright for a critical check-in on EPR compliance, unpacking what the first round of EPR reporting revealed—and how to prepare for what’s coming in the U.S., Canada, and beyond.

In this session, we’ll cover:

  • What companies got right—and where they struggled—during the first reporting cycle
  • The next deadlines and how to adapt your compliance strategy for evolving regulations
  • Common myths, misinterpretations, and costly mistakes
  • Steps to build a proactive, audit-ready, and scalable EPR process

Bringing together leaders in industry and technology to drive innovation.

  • Katie Krasts

    Product Manager, Specright

    Katie Exum is a Product Manager at Specright, the leader in Specification Data Management. Katie has a background in packaging engineering, where she worked in the food & beverage industry, followed by consumer electronics at Amazon. She pivoted to working in data management at Specright, where she added experience in customer onboarding, then strategic partnerships, before transitioning into product management. Across all of her roles, Katie’s passion for sustainability has been an incorporated into her work. 

  • Michelle Carvell

    Chief Operating Officer, Lorax EPI

    Michelle Carvell is the current COO of Lorax EPI. She has 15 years of experience working in the environmental compliance sector, building an extensive knowledge of the industry. After graduating from Cardiff University in 2002, she developed her career specializing in product stewardship, producer responsibility programs and their impacts on the producers. Co-founding Lorax Compliance Limited in 2014, Michelle supports a diverse range of businesses with specialists and extended producer responsibility, as well as tailored consultancy covering all aspects of environmental legislation. Michelle’s focus within Lorax is to promote and simplify the vast range of reporting requirements their clients find themselves obligated by.

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