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

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 bins, transport options, recyclable mailers, and six-pack carriers, explains the complicated provide chains that feed our life-style. Atlantic Packaging is working to cut back its environmental influence 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 an alternative 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 get rid of 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 scale 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 sequence designed to assist finish ocean plastic air pollution, with a worldwide neighborhood of surfers and environmentalists. You can be taught extra about Atlantic Packaging at atlanticpkg.com.