Analysis. Good data management software enables users to quickly get answers to questions that are complicated and/or time-consuming to answer. EPSS provides click-of-a-button answers to a variety of questions, including the following:

• Which products have packaging with more than 20% recycled content?
• Which products contain post-consumer recycled content? In what percentage?
• Which products have packaging components that are specially enhanced to degrade?
• If the state of New York bans polystyrene in packaging, which products will be affected? Who are our alternative vendors?
• What is the total weight per product of paperboard, paper, plastic, glass, and wood in packaging for those products sold in Germany last year?
• Which products have more than 15% excess packaging, less than 10% recycled content, and contain PVC or polystyrene?

Reporting. EPSS also provides click-of-a-button reporting capabilities to generate a variety of reports, including the following:

• Product lists
• Product profiles
• Vendor-product (raw material) reports
• Packaging specification reports

Sample Reports. Samples of some of the reports generated by EPSS are shown below in pdf format. All data shown in these reports are fictitious.

• Product Profile Report (10kb) - environmental packaging profile of a single product
• Luxembourg Individual Packaging Description form (1999 version) (11 kb)
• Sample Graph 1 - Total Recycled Content (RCT) in packaging, by Type of product