From Partner Data to Pact Progress — Reported.Measured.Connected.

The annual Impact Report has carried the Pact this far on careful Partner-by-Partner returns and a tireless secretariat. The opportunity now is to give that same craft a continuous data fabric — so progress against the four 2025 targets is always one click from board-ready.

A pact-wide intelligence layer that anonymises and rolls up Partner data continuously. Cher, Sarah, Meg and Sinead see live progress, peer benchmarks, and Roadmap-to-2035 scenarios in one view.

Board-ready aggregate progress on demand. Evidence base for the Roadmap to 2035. The 'data tells the truth' narrative — including the hard parts like 10% PCR in 2023 — backed by source evidence.

Brand owners already report a single SKU into FPR, Circular Materials, ÉEQ, Recycle BC, Alberta, and the Pact Annual Survey — each schema serving a different purpose. Sustainability, packaging, and marketing teams each hold expert pieces of the picture. The opportunity is one canonical Partner dataset that respects every schema and brings every team's view together.

One canonical SKU dataset, multiple outputs. Auto-prep FPR Phase 1 submissions, GDR scorecards, and provincial EPR registrations from the same Partner master data.

Report once, comply everywhere. Truth-in-Recycling claims linked to mass-balance evidence — Competition Bureau-defensible from day one.

Private-label SKUs span every category, and retailers already steward sophisticated merchandising, sustainability, and EPR systems. Shrink visibility, EPR fee accuracy, and recyclability claims all flow from the same packaging master — and the opportunity is to let those systems talk to each other rather than each carry the whole load alone.

SKU-level packaging visibility integrated with merchandising and EPR systems. Format-level recyclability flags per local MRF acceptance, not just the GDRs in the abstract.

EPR fee accuracy. Defensible 'recyclable' claims on private label. A single source of truth for sustainability, merchandising, and finance.

Recyclers and PROs hold the most operationally honest data in the Pact — PRO submissions, MRF audits, reprocessor invoices, format-by-format. Linking what went on shelf to what was actually recovered is the heart of Target 3, and the opportunity is a shared layer where Partners and PROs can co-author that link without either side rebuilding the other's systems.

Two-way data exchange between Partner packaging masters and PRO/MRF flow data. Recovery-rate evidence at the format level, not just the bin level.

Closes the loop on Target 3 (50% effectively recycled). Gives Circular Materials, Recycle BC, ÉEQ and Merlin the granularity they need for honest recovery rates.

ECCC has stood up the Federal Plastics Registry at remarkable pace, and Phase 1 submissions reflect the diversity of producer data models across Canada. As Phases 2 and 3 land via the Summer 2026 Canada Gazette notice, the opportunity is a shared evidence base — built with Partners, fluent in pact methodology — that makes consistent, defensible reporting easier for everyone.

FPR-format outputs generated directly from Partner data, with full audit trail. Cross-Partner consistency that makes ECCC's analytics and policy work defensible.

Higher-quality FPR submissions on Sept 29. Evidence base for the Summer 2026 Canada Gazette notice on Phases 2-3. Policy fluent in pact data, not built around it.

CSA, GS1, NZWC, Circular Innovation Council and the EMF need methodology consistency to publish credible benchmarks. Today every Partner answers slightly different questions.

Methodology-as-code: GDR definitions, problematic plastics list, mass-balance rules and EMF Global Commitment templates are versioned, applied uniformly, and fed back into the network.

Cross-pact benchmarking with confidence. Peer-reviewable methodology. The Pact becomes a contributor to global reporting standards, not just a consumer of them.