Companies are increasingly setting goals and strategies for more sustainable consumption of plastics, yet few have the necessary methods and tools to properly map their current use. The Plastics Progress Tools initiative was launched in 2020 to find a standard for how companies can map and act on their use of plastics. In 2022, the project resulted in a practical methodology and a prototype for a digital tool that was tested. However, along the way, Axfoundation discovered that developing a generic digital tool for compiling and analyzing plastics data was more difficult than first anticipated.