Key Deadlines & How Emerger Strategies Can Help Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws are reshaping the packaging landscape in the United States, putting more responsibility on brands to manage the lifecycle of their products and packaging. These laws aim to reduce waste and environmental impact by requiring producers (brands) to finance the collection, recycling, and…
Category: Plastic Pollution
U.S. Plastics Pact Releases Essential Guides to Advance Circular Economy for Plastics
Walpole, NH – August–, 2024 – The U.S. Plastics Pact (U.S. Pact) has released their Design for Circularity Playbooks, three essential reports designed to guide the lifecycle of plastics in the United States. The newly unveiled Design for Recyclability Playbook, Design for Reuse Playbook, and Design for Compostability Playbook provide detailed guidelines to ensure that plastic packaging…
DEEP DIVE: EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY (EPR) FOR PACKAGING, EXPLAINED BY ATLANTIC PACKAGING
As you may know, Emerger Strategies has partnered with Atlantic Packaging and A New Earth Project to deliver sustainable packaging solutions for our clients, and I recently came across the article, “Deep Dive: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging, Explained” from Atlantic Packaging, and if you, or your brand, don’t understand EPR, this is a…
Is your company ready for California’s groundbreaking packaging law, SB 54?
The Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54) is a packaging extended producer (EPR) law that was signed into law in California in 2022. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that holds producers responsible for the entire lifecycle of their products, including post-consumer waste management. It shifts the burden of…
Sustainable Packaging: Foam made from shrimp shells?
We all know that plastic pollution is a major problem that our planet is currently facing and much of the packaging waste the ends up in our environment, which then harms plants and animals is styrofoam. In fact, styrofoam has become such a nuisance that towns, like Folly Beach have banned styrofoam and plastic bags…
The Sustainable Angler Podcast: Atlantic Packaging President Wes Carter
Rick Crawford In this episode of The Sustainable Angler podcast I interview Atlantic Packaging President Wes Carter, and we take a deep dive on plastic pollution, specifically centered around plastic packaging. We discuss everything from zero waste and designing for circularity; the carbon footprint of plastic packaging and what Atlantic Packaging is doing to clean…
