The project aims to reduce reliance on incineration and landfills while supporting the European Union's circular economy ...

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It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking equipment.

New research reveals that common food packaging and utensils can shed microscopic plastics into our food, prompting urgent calls for stricter testing and updated regulations to protect public health.

Meanwhile, the single-use plastic packaging used to reduce food wastage poses a more insidious problem. Once discarded, the ...

Industrial design graduate Gwen Gage's has created a plastic mesh that connect medication boxes together to allow easier delivery of malaria medicine in remote sub-Saharan African villages. Gage ...

The scissors were on sale for $3. Suspended between two thick layers of tough plastic, they looked permanently imprisoned. Ingenuity, and no small amount of effort, would be needed to free my ...

This is a story about a box. That's it, just a box. "It's not rocket science," said Rudy Youell. "It's almost so stupid it's ridiculous. But it's saving so much money it's amazing." His simple box ...

A version of this story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Around tables strewn with Exacto knives, bowls, cutting boards, tape, funnels, and bags of hemp powder, ...

For decades nesting boxes have provided sanctuary for threatened Australian wildlife. Now two regional New South Wales ecologists are behind the manufacture of a new plastic design they believe could ...

ADDISON, Ill. — It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and Bubble Wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking ...