Carving Our Way

by helping clients navigate the evolving EPR landscape 

CSY Impact Consulting began in March of  2023. 
Since then, we've helped multiple clients proactively navigate EPR and the circular economy. 

CSY Impact Consulting advises companies across the packaging value chain, including producers and service providers under EPR, and others participating in the circular economy. Our clients range from premium consumer brands and large industrial distributors to specialty material manufacturers, recyclers, and industry trade groups. Producer engagements span first-time EPR registration, packaging classification, fee modeling, regulatory intelligence, and multi-state compliance strategy. Service provider engagements span reimbursement process support and aligning long-term investment strategy with PRO program plans. Current and past clients include:

Producers across the consumer goods industry

EPR foundation across six states. Classification of EPR packaging categories for thousands of SKUs across OR, CA, CO, MN, MD, WA; obligation confirmation, including digital channel scoping; defining obligations across sales channels; methodology guidance for weight estimation on multi-component packaging; SB 54 redesign analysis, packaging facing 2032 recyclability requirements. Anchor deliverable: a reporting workbook that client teams can reuse year over year.

Cross-state EPR operationalization, covering obligation confirmation, classification across distributor-supplied and private-label SKUs, fee modeling, and quarterly regulatory intelligence. Working sessions with category management, sustainability, legal, and packaging engineering to optimize EPR compliance across the business.

Innovative Service Providers  

Downstream collectors, recyclers and end markets CSY Impact is advising organizations on the best pathway to secure recognition as a Service Provider and/or Responsible End Market under the EPR programs administered by the Circular Action Alliance in Oregon, California, and Colorado, unlocking reimbursement and fee-exemption pathways for hard-to-recycle packaging. Additionally, CSY Impact Consulting produces policy analysis from an operations lens, strategic positioning advice, and client-ready deliverables (memos, decks, regulatory Q&A) to help companies navigate CAA-administered packaging EPR programs.

Industry trade association 

Oregon EPR fee methodology challenge: Supporting a coordinated industry challenge to material-specific fee categorization under the CAA Oregon framework. Phased scope with delivery commitments and phase caps. Demonstrates work at the intersection of CAA program design and producer advocacy.

Foundational member of the U.S. Producer Responsibility Organization for paper and packaging EPR.

Circular Action Alliance is the first approved Producer Responsibility Organization, a requirement for many Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation passed in the US. As a member of the team that established Circular Action Alliance, CSY Impact Consulting set the foundation for the producer services tools, processes, capabilities and operations.

  • Set an engagement strategy to secure obligated producer registration and compliance leveraging multiple channels:

    • Newsletters

    • Lead generation

    • Email campaigns

    • Social

  • Established the producer centric journey and built tools, processes and capabilities to support a smooth and informed producer journey.

  • Established data governance strategy and practices to support compliance tracking and stakeholder communications.

  • Defined objectives and project management techniques to drive the team to effective execution.

Defining Impact

With Osprey Initiatives, we redefined how they measured and communicated their impact. The team is very rigorous with measurement, but together we shifted from a one dimensional measurement to a well-rounded approach to defining success..

  • Analyzed competitive landscape.

  • Defined top priority metrics that spanned environmental and social impacts.

  • Outlined processes and methodology for measurement.

  • Set achievable, credible goals.

  • Define value proposition to customer embedding newly defined goals and impact.

Veteran of Coca-Cola

Christine Yeager spent over 11 of her 15+ years experience working with Coca-Cola. There she led many projects. One where she optimized how Coca-Cola captured, defined and communicated its finished product data to customers, consumers and supply chain. After leading 10+ IT implementations and integrations, Christine shifted to setting the objectives for the organization. She led the annual and long range planning activities for Coca-Cola North America and ended her time at Coca-Cola as the Director Sustainability PMO.