GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Amazon and fellow online retailers will dispatch packages and pouches in the millions this week as the holiday shipping rush begins. Properly disposing of those mailed ...

Online shopping creates millions of tons of packaging waste each year. During the two-day Amazon Prime event that took place in October, America ordered an estimated 260 million items. The shipping ...

The Lego Group, Denmark, has joined the How2Recycle initiative, providing U.S. consumers with guidance and encouragement to responsibly recycle their Lego packaging. The first Lego boxes with ...

The holiday season is upon us, and with it comes a flurry of online shopping and a mountain of cardboard boxes. While the convenience of online shopping is undeniable, the environmental impact of all ...

The rise of e-commerce means there are an awful lot of cardboard boxes making one-way trips before maybe ending up in a recycling bin under the best of circumstances. A startup called LivingPackets ...

Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty & ...

When I was in Seattle for the 2012 TAPPI PLACE Conference (May 6-9; Grand Hyatt Seattle), there was an aspect of the city that stuck with me, and it wasn't the overabundance of Starbucks. All over the ...

Phenix Label, an Olathe, Kansas-based developer of labels and flexible packaging, has introduced a recyclable packaging design for liquid-filled bottles featuring a tearaway radio-frequency ...

Milk, juice, broth and wine containers made of carton can now wear the recycling insignia in California Critics say the state’s tough laws on waste and plastic should have prohibited that Lodi — A ...