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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A $2.6 million grant from some of the nation's biggest companies will make Pottstown the first municipality to test recycling items like potato chip bags, candy pouches, plastic shrink wrap and more.

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 ...

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 ...