Circularity · reporting
Numbers your auditor can actually check.
- Issued
- Quarterly, free
- Records retained
- 7 years
- Customer audits passed
- 4, no findings
Request a statement
Tell us the account name and the reporting period you need. If you are not yet a customer, we will model it instead.
Answer first
One four-page document, four times a year, at no charge.
Most packaging suppliers, asked for diversion data, send a marketing PDF. We send a statement that ties line-by-line to bills of lading and weighbridge tickets, states the factor set and revision used, shows the freight penalty we subtracted, and names the mills our baled OCC went to.
It exists because a customer's reporting consultant asked us four questions in 2022 that we could not answer cleanly. Building the answer took a year. It is now the single most requested thing on this site after the size chart.
Contents
What the four pages contain.
| Page | Section | Contents | Ties to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Account summary | Units in and out by footprint and grade, period totals, account reference | Bills of lading, our availability ledger |
| 2 | Diversion | Tons reused, reconditioned, fabricated and baled; landfill line stated as zero | Weighbridge tickets, baler log |
| 3 | Avoided impact | CO₂e and water avoided, trees on virgin counterfactual, freight penalty netted | Published factor set, rev. 4 |
| 4 | Method & attestation | Assumptions, counterfactual stated plainly, signature, revision number | The public reuse-math page |
How to get it
Four steps, mostly ours.
- 01
Trade with us
Any account that buys or sells in a quarter is automatically in scope. No enrolment, no fee, no minimum volume.
- 02
Name your reporting contact
Tell us who should receive it and in what format — PDF for filing, CSV if your team prefers to model it themselves.
- 03
We issue within 15 days
Statements go out within fifteen days of quarter end, which is early enough for most internal reporting calendars.
- 04
We support the audit
If your assurance provider has questions, they come to us directly. We keep the underlying tickets for seven years.
Questions
What reporting teams ask us.
What exactly is in the quarterly statement?
Which reporting frameworks does it map to?
Can our auditor verify it?
Do you charge for it?
The factor set
Every number, every assumption, every revision — published so it can be checked.
Methodology
OpenManaged reuse programme
Scheduled collection, graded return supply and a standing diversion report for multi-site operations.
Service
OpenOCC recycling & baling
What happens to the small share of material that genuinely cannot run again.
Service
Open
Mapping
Where reuse data lands in the common frameworks.
The most frequent confusion is expecting reuse to score under recycled content. It usually does not, and it usually scores somewhere better.
| Framework area | Counts? | How it is reported |
|---|---|---|
| Scope 3, category 1 — purchased goods | Yes | Lower embodied emissions in procured packaging |
| Scope 3, category 5 — waste in operations | Yes | Material diverted from the disposal stream |
| GRI 306 waste disclosures | Yes | Diverted tonnage by route, with destinations |
| Zero-waste-to-landfill claims | Yes | Directly, with weighbridge evidence |
| Packaging reduction targets | Yes | Fewer units manufactured for the same volume |
| Recycled content targets | Usually not | No new board is produced at all |
| Supplier diversity or local sourcing | Sometimes | Depends on your own criteria |
| Internal carbon pricing | Yes | Avoided tonnes × your internal price |
Comparing suppliers
Six questions that separate data from marketing.
Ask these of us and of anyone else claiming circular packaging credentials. The answers are usually immediate or absent.
- 01
What proportion of your inbound is reused as-is?
Ours is 71%. A company baling most of what it receives is a recycler with a sustainability page, which is fine but different.
- 02
Is freight netted off your impact figures?
If not, the numbers are overstated. Ours reduces the headline by roughly seven per cent and we publish the method.
- 03
What is the stated counterfactual?
Avoided savings are meaningless without one. It should be written on the statement, not inferred.
- 04
Can unit counts be tied to bills of lading?
Estimates are fine if labelled as estimates. Anything presented as measured should tie to a document.
- 05
How long are the records kept?
Ours run seven years, matching the retention on weighbridge tickets. Anything shorter limits what an auditor can test.
- 06
Has the factor set ever been revised downward?
A methodology that has only ever moved in the flattering direction has not been tested by anyone.
Get the data before your reporting deadline, not after.
Tell us the period and the format. If you are modelling a switch to reuse, send prospective volumes and we will run those too.