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Cardboard packaging decline flashes warning for US growth

A slump in demand for cardboard packaging is ringing alarm bells across the United States. Far more than just a shipping material, corrugated cardboard is a barometer of consumer activity and ...
Business Wire

What’s in cardboard’s future? Smart packaging with self-healing ‘skin’ that repairs itself

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the 150 th year of the ubiquitous cardboard box, packaging experts at sustainability leader DS Smith outlined today a futuristic blueprint for how the box might evolve ...
Fast Company

The hot new product Amazon and Target are obsessing over? Boxes

Packaging is an ancient practice. Humans have been improvising containers for holding and transporting things for millennia, from baked clay vases to tanned leather satchels to sawed and nailed wooden ...
New Atlas

Foam packaging may have met its match, in the form of origami cardboard

Non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, petroleum-based EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam packaging is not eco-friendly stuff. There could soon be a greener and snazzier-looking alternative, however, in the ...
The Verge

Online shopping has shifted recycling responsibilities to consumers

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media ...