Best of Earth911 Podcast: Atlantic Packaging’s Wes Carter on Making Commerce Sustainable

Best of Earth911 Podcast: Atlantic Packaging’s Wes Carter on Making Commerce Sustainable

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Wes Carter, president of Atlantic Packaging, a Wilmington, N.C.-based maker of sustainable containers, delivery options, recyclable mailers, and six-pack carriers, explains the advanced provide chains that feed our way of life. Atlantic Packaging is working to scale back its environmental impression and waste at each step between a producer and the house. Listen to this wide-ranging dialog to listen to how the adoption of sustainable sources of fiber in packaging and six-pack rings make these conventional sources of landfilled waste biodegrade in months as a substitute of the centuries plastic takes.

Wes Carter, president of Atlantic Packaging
Wes Carter, president of Atlantic Packaging, is our visitor on Sustainability in Your Ear.

We additionally focus on simplifying the vary of supplies utilized in packaging and prolonged producer accountability packages. Improvements in recycling assortment and the rising use of “right-sized” packaging can eradicate a lot of the waste created by residence deliveries. Wes additionally shares Atlantic Packaging’s evaluation of how plastic movies are used within the provide chain. He means that movies cut back the necessity for paper and different packaging. Building on Wes’ ardour for browsing, the corporate is lately launched the A New Earth Project, a video collection designed to assist finish ocean plastic air pollution, with a worldwide group of surfers and environmentalists. You can be taught extra about Atlantic Packaging at atlanticpkg.com.