Every product on a supermarket shelf is wrapped in something, and under the UK's Extended Producer Responsibility rules, businesses are now financially responsible for that packaging from production through to disposal. In practice, that means tracking the material, weight and recyclability of every product's packaging, known as a ‘SKU’, and reporting it accurately.
For a business selling across hundreds of brands and constantly changing product lines, this challenge multiplies fast, and getting it wrong would entail significant financial consequences. This is the world Ecosurety operates in.
Ecosurety has built its reputation managing exactly this complexity for over 500 major brands and retailers, turning that data into the insight businesses need to make smarter, more sustainable packaging decisions. But manual processes only stretch so far, and Ecosurety is clear that the next stage of its growth depends on automation, not more people doing the same work by hand.
That's the challenge YLD is being brought in to help solve. Our teams are embedded within Ecosurety, working alongside their team throughout, to build the data infrastructure underneath their platform.
The work spans SKU-level data pipelines and smart matching logic, laying foundations for a product that could ultimately support the whole packaging value chain.
It's a genuinely hard data challenge, on a mission worth solving, and exactly the kind of work we're built to take on.
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