Funding to construct this database has been provided by the European Recycling Platform, Nestle Waters North America (now Primo Brands), TetraPak, Waste Management, AMERIPEN, Sony Interactive Entertainment, the Hunt Foundation, and Norma Koppel. Technical assistance with the website and database has been provided by YaleSites, Last Call Media, Paul Hoekman and the LIFE4EPR project.
Many graduate students at the Yale School of Environment have contributed time and effort to the creation of this database including Tristanne Davis, Olga Kachook, Tianming Chen, John Good, Monica Skeldon, Ilan Aliphas, Dimaghi Schwamback, Cerys Holstege, and Shivani Kondubhatla, Courtney Megerian, and Riki Bertholdi. Tessa Lee, Esther Rojas-Garcia, Michael Brod, Aishwarya Iyer, Yuri Li, and Qianchun Yuan have made special and extensive contributions to the realization of this database. Thanks also go to Carla Heister, librarian for the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Since April 2025, the LIFE4EPR project has played a central role in in adding and updating latest EPR references with a focus on EU policy research and documents, fixing critical functionalities and curation errors, and refining the web interface for general public use.