Insights & Strategy
Zero-Waste Retail Trials: What Five Years Have Taught the Category
EPR's 2026 retrospective on zero-waste retail. The substantial five-year evolution from 2021 baseline, what arrived with the substantial 2025 commitment deadlines (Kroger's Zero Hunger Zero Waste framework), substantial zero-waste retailers (Zero Market, EcoRoots, Marley's Monsters, Life Without Plastic), and substantial 2026 retail sustainability context including substantial EU PPWR implementation.