Ask Pip: Expert sustainability support for design agencies
Fast expert guidance from a sustainability expert to help your agency confidently navigate sustainability briefs, packaging decisions and client claims.
Sense check packaging concepts before presenting to clients
Discuss sustainability claims requirements
Respond confidently to sustainability-led design briefs
Get expert input and updates on packaging recyclability or regulations
If so, Ask Pip gives your team fast access to a sustainability specialist- without slowing down your creative process.
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What is Ask Pip?
Ask Pip is a focused 60-minute consultation designed for packaging design agencies navigating sustainability questions within real client work.
As sustainability expectations grow, agencies are increasingly asked to recommend materials, formats and claims that align with circular design principles and regulatory expectations.
Ask Pip gives you direct access to a sustainability packaging consultant, helping your team move forward with confidence.
Whether you're reviewing a concept, preparing for a client presentation or validating sustainability claims, this session helps ensure your design decisions are credible, practical and aligned with real-world recovery systems.
It’s a simple, low-commitment way to get expert input from a sustainability specialist when you need it.
Here’s what you’ll get:
Your Ask Pip session provides focused, practical guidance your team can act on immediately.
60-minute expert consultation: A focused conversation to review a sustainability brief, packaging concept or client question.
Expert review of packaging queries: guidance on packaging materials, recyclability, sustainability claims or regulatory considerations from a sustainability packaging consultant.
Clear next steps: practical advice grounded in circular packaging principles and real-world recovery systems. Our recommendations will outline what to do next and how to move forward with confidence.
Following your session, you’ll walk away with:
Clear answers to your packaging questions
Confidence and understanding of sustainability claims requirements
Expert guidance on packaging materials and recyclability
An understanding how to address compliance concerns
Clarity on the next step for your packaging project
Many design agencies start with Ask Pip to sense-check a brief or concept, then continue working with philo & co through ongoing Design Agency Partner support.
Our Process
Step 1 - Book your session
Choose a time that works for you and outline the packaging query you’d like to discuss.
Step 2 - Expert consultation
During the session we review your packaging questions, concepts or challenges and provide clear, practical guidance.
Step 3 - Walk away with clarity
You leave with expert insight and recommended next steps so you can move forward with confidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Common topics include packaging materials, recyclability, sustainability claims, circular design principles, recovery systems and sustainability-led client briefs. Our regulatory expertise extends AU/NZ, EU and UK markets.
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Yes. Once you book, you’ll receive a short RFI to help us understand your packaging challenge ahead of the session. It’s also helpful to bring any relevant packaging specifications, images, material information, or sustainability claims you’d like to discuss so we can make the most of our time together.
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Ask Pip is designed to provide focused expert guidance within a 60-minute session. It is not a full packaging assessment or formal sustainability claims review. However, we’ll use the time to respond to as many of your packaging questions in as much detail as possible and provide practical recommendations and next steps. If deeper analysis is required, we may recommend our Design Agency Partner to deliver ongoing support or specific project.
Need expert guidance on a sustainability brief or packaging decision?
Unsure if this is for you?
Explore other ways we can support your packaging journey.
Design Agency Impact Assessment
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Design Agency Partnership
Ongoing access to sustainable packaging expertise to support client projects, creative decisions and internal capability building.
Circular Design Accelerator
A structured program to embed sustainability into your agency’s creative process, positioning and service offering.
About me
philo & co was founded by Pippa Corry, an award-winning sustainable packaging consultant with over 15 years’ experience across FMCG, packaging design and sustainability.
Before launching philo & co, Pippa worked within leading packaging design agencies, supporting global FMCG brands to develop packaging solutions that balance creativity, commercial performance and sustainability outcomes.
Combining agency experience with deep sustainability expertise, Pippa works alongside design teams to translate complex packaging challenges into practical design strategies that align with circular design principles, real-world recovery systems and credible sustainability communication.
Today, philo & co partners with packaging design agencies to strengthen sustainability capability, support client projects and confidently integrate design and sustainability into the creative process.
