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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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