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

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May 27, 2025

10AM PST

Description:

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

Speakers

Bringing together leaders in industry and technology to drive innovation.

Matthew Wright

Founder & CEO

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Matthew Wright is the founder & CEO of Specright, the first cloud-based platform for Specification Management. Specright has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, received the Salesforce Innovation Award and was named one of the Top Places to Work by the OC Register and Built in LA. Wright is also a published author and his book, “The Evolution of Products and Packaging,”was named to the Amazon Hot New Release List for Industrial Relations Business and has a five star rating.
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Prior to founding Specright, Wright spent more than 25 years in the packaging industry, holding leadership positions at International Paper, Temple Inland, and rightPAQ — a packaging company he co-founded. He has also been involved in leading multiple M&A deals in the packaging industry and sits on the Packaging Advisory Board at Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo.

Michelle Carvell

Chief Operating Officer, Lorax EPI

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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