Plastic Ingenuity’s mission as a sustainable packaging company is to help our customers achieve their circularity goals, including brands, retailers and healthcare manufacturers. EcoImpact-COMPASS is an essential component of our Sustainable Packaging Assessment service, which includes a detailed analysis of various design and material options. We leverage the life cycle assessment (LCA) tool to comprehensively analyze the environmental impact of a customer’s design and material choices across the entire life cycle of the product, comparing against sustainability metrics such as embodied carbon, water usage, fossil fuel usage and energy consumption.

Running Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) using EcoImpact-COMPASS has given us the ability to quickly assess directional impacts of options and quickly/clearly internally communicate it. COMPASS is easy to use, and it also provides some examples of everyday things people can relate to based on the metrics it gives, for example, the number of homes that can run on the energy used to make a package. Trayak’s sustainability consultants are always really helpful and they provide quick responses as needed.

Microsoft has been an early adopter of the COMPASS life cycle assessment software using it to make design decisions to reduce the environmental footprint of our packaging. Additionally Trayak provided expert consulting services to help Microsoft quickly model and benchmark our complete packaging portfolio inside EcoImpact COMPASS. Their consulting team helped us use best practices and significantly reduced the time required for entering the packaging data. The reports and insights provided by the Trayak team and COMPASS helped Microsoft not only track progress towards our existing goals but also review and set new sustainability goals.

COMPASS has been a key tool for our development process for many years – having an easy + accessible tool to compare packaging LCA analyses has helped us make format comparisons quickly and confidently. We’ve been nothing but pleased with Trayak during this time. They have provided in-person training to our engineering + sustainability teams and have always kept us apprised of any updates in the system. Thanks for the many years!”

Compass has had an immediate and significant impact to our sustainability goals. With it’s very detailed and quantifiable calculation methods, we no longer have to estimate our sustainability impact based on very general EPA guidelines. We now know exact data points to allow us to make more eco-responsible packaging decisions from design, materials, manufacturing, and even from a geographical sourcing standpoint. Knowing that Compass is the gold standard in eco-analytics, we can confidently track and present our carbon footprint, and also make more informed decisions as to how we shape our sustainability program.

EcoImpact-Compass has allowed us at Traditional Medicinals to establish baseline impact measurements for all our bagged tea packaging (tea strings, cartons, pallets, etc.) for the first time. This allows us to not only quantify and better understand the environmental impacts of our packaging but also provides us a shared language to discuss these topics internally. Using EcoImpact-Compass, we created a new internal process to evaluate potential new packaging substrates against our existing packaging. The comparative report function empowers cross-functional decision each time we make a new packaging choice.

The EcoImpact-COMPASS platform is scientifically advanced but also user-friendly, generating easy to understand results that enhance our customer experience and describe measurable improvements in sustainability performance when implemented.

EcoImpact COMPASS’ ability to quickly evaluate and compare packaging designs, enables our development teams to minimize the environmental impact of our packaging during the design phase, and provides our sales teams with easy to understand, quantifiable indicators to communicate the environmental benefits of new designs to our customers.