FLORENCE – Tis the holiday season, and that typically means a lot more household trash and waste, especially plastic bags, wrap and film used for eCommerce. These items should not be placed in ...

Some 55 billion parcels are shipped in bubble wrap every year. Plastic bubble wrap is reliant on fossil fuels and 98% of plastic packaging is single-use. You can imagine the adverse environmental ...

Gardeners have been urged not to throw away bubble wrap this winter as it has a surprising benefit to our outdoor spaces. As ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. 1. Why can’t Styrofoam be recycled? Polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam ...

Plastic bags, bubble wrap and other plastic “film” products that haven’t typically been part of the curbside recycling stream can be particularly insidious threats to marine life. “Plastic bags, when ...

NEW YORK — Bubble wrap, originally invented in 1957 as a type of three-dimensional wall covering, is now inside most packages you’d find outside your front door. Most people look at bubble wrap as ...

New metallic bubble wrap is far stronger than plastic bubble wrap, and more than 50 percent more bendable than flat sheet metal. Engineers at North Carolina State University invented the metallic ...