While it might look silly, the people putting bubble wrap on their windows are actually onto something — and saving some ...

Bubble wrap is a simple insurance for safe shipping. It’s lightweight, effective, and oddly satisfying to pop. But while it's excellent at protecting fragile items, bubble wrap may pose a problem when ...

Amy Y. Conry Davis is a writer who specializes in green living, sustainability, and travel. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of San Diego. The good news is, yes, bubble wrap can be ...

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 ...

If you order anything by mail, you're likely to collect an overflow of bubble wrap. The stuff does a great job keeping fragile items safe, but what do you do with all that plastic? It turns out, there ...

Hate to burst your bubble, glass lab gear. But plastic bubble wrap also works pretty well at running science experiments. Scientists at Harvard University have figured out a way to use these petite ...

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 ...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (WCCO) -- A major Twin Cities corporation believes it's found a green, sustainable way to pack and ship delicate objects. Tom Corrigan, an inventor for 3M, remembers the exact moment ...