I am excited to be talking sustainability at ICAST next week at the Orange County Convention Center! Imagine a company that not only champions the sport of fishing, but also leads on climate action and conservation efforts. Products & packaging that are friendly to marine life, and that degrade harmlessly back into the earth. It’s…
Tag: Sustainable Packaging
Protect What You Love
I started my company to protect what I love, which is Emerger Strategies’ purpose. As a passionate angler who fell in love with nature through fly fishing, I quickly discovered that pollution, climate change, and habitat degradation were posing significant risks to our fisheries. I am also witnessing in real-time and sea-level rise, plastic pollution,…
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…
