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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Bubble wrap comes in handy when you're packaging up parcels or looking for an oddly satisfying form of tactile stress relief. But now there's apparently a brand new way to use the go-to packaging ...