Earth Month - Upcycled Straps and Scraps
Meet BÉR, our newest addition to the BERtrand family. He is a Black Labrador Retriever that just turned 1, and I am excited to share how Bér inspired a small...
Shu's Notebook — Sustainability
Edible Ornaments
Q&A with Leslie Bennet, owner of Pine House Edible Gardens Tell us about your background and what inspired you to leave your previous career in law to launch Pine House Edible...
Farmhouse Lab's Real Food rooted in ancient wisdom from Ayurveda
Q&A with our friend Daniela, founder of Farmhouse Lab. Tell us about Ayurvedic nutrition (diet/medicine?) and how it informed you and if that informs Farmhouse Lab creations today? I am...
Aplat’s Circular Process
After locking down our zero-waste design management in production, we are working on other aspects of our circular economy business model. It comes back to making choices - these choices...
The Math Behind It
Math is an integral part of yielding zero waste. So we do a lot of math, fueled by a lot of passion. Here’s a glossary of our most commonly used...
Bag-to-School with Aplat
Summer adventures and day camps for the kids are coming to an end—and now it’s time to get them ready for school again. The other day while packing their lunches...
Aplat and the French Connection
In my previous notebook I shared how I transitioned from a 20 year industrial design career to mompreneur pursuing my bag dream full-time. It took almost a year to ideate...
3/14 is Pi Day!
We love pi and pies! π is an irrational number that continues infinitely, and it lends us infinite possibilities throughout our Zero Waste Design™ process. To eliminate scraps in...
In Honor of International Women’s Day
The Women of Factory Aplat Today on International Women’s Day, I want to honor the talented women of my factories who inspire me and the work of Aplat. They are...