Interviews
Stopping The Wave of Plastic Waste
A New Earth Project is transforming the packaging industry with sustainable innovation to raise awareness on the plastic crisis and leave the world a better place for the next generation.
Story by
Danny Schleien
How Do We Avoid This?
It’s one thing to say you're against plastic in the ocean. It's another thing entirely to bet the family business on it.
Tackling Sustainability: Science, Scaling, Solutions, and Challenges
Sustainability is top of mind across our industry and the broader economic landscape. Many of us are aware of this, and we're all at different stages of progress, but we're inevitably asking the same questions: What's needed? How do we get there? What does science say? How do we scale? And, what solutions are there that are ready to adopt?
Earth Day: Three Industry Suppliers Striving to Make a Difference
In honor of Earth Day, Shop Eat Surf spoke with three industry suppliers that are striving to make a positive environmental impact while growing their businesses at the same time.
Leave Nothing but Footprints in the Sand
How often do you stop to think about the environmental impact of your surfing and what can be done to make it a more sustainable pursuit? Who doesn’t love a new gleaming, white board? Or that first session in a fresh wetsuit? It’s a dream.
But our actions and purchasing decisions do make a difference, and there are things we can all do to help the ocean out a little.
A New Earth Project Opens Showroom in Laguna Beach
Shop ”New Earth Approved” products for Earth Day and help rid our waterways of pollution.
What's Really Motivating Businesses to Embrace Climate Action?
What's driving so many business and cultural leaders to focus their energy on sustainability and climate issues? Is it for the good of mankind? For business? Or for both? Join Adam Davidson and Wes Carter to explore the motivations and inspirations behind the climate movement.
Turning Off the Tap
"The president of a packaging company is determined to help solve the problem of plastic pollution."
Social Impact Heroes Helping Our Planet
Why & How Wes Carter of Atlantic Packaging Is Helping To Change Our World
Down to Earth
Wes Carter Tackles the Issue of Pollution Head-On as President of Atlantic Packaging
The Post and Courier
Charleston business owner starts project to rid oceans of plastic pollution.
Podcasts
Wes Carter, President, Atlantic Packaging: On Empowering Purposeful Packaging
Wes Carter is the President of Atlantic Packaging, the largest, private packaging company in the U.S. which has been operating for 75 years. As a third generation business owner, he is on a mission to make packaging smarter and sustainable. In this episode, we discuss the moral obligation he feels for packaging companies to care about environmental issues, inspire greater responsibility in customers, and innovate to better serve our future. He reveals the power of collaboration between competitors, partners, and policy makeers to realize a new and transformative vision for sustainable packaging at a time it's urgently needed.
Atlantic Packaging's Wes Carter on Making Commerce Sustainable
Wes Carter, president of Atlantic Packaging, a Wilmington, N.C.-based maker of sustainable boxes, shipping solutions, recyclable mailers, and six-pack carriers, explains the complex supply chains that feed our lifestyle.
Episode 43: A New Earth with Peter King and Wes Carter
Sarah sits down with former World Tour surfer Peter King and President of Atlantic Packaging Wes Carter to discuss their project.
49. Wes Carter: A New Earth Project / President at Atlantic Packaging
Today on the Live Life in Motion, I talk with Wes Carter. Wes is the President at Atlantic Packaging. He recently teamed up with Peter King and the global surfing community to create A New Earth Project.
Ep. 39. Atlantic Packaging President Wes Carter
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.