If you've ever opened a package that was filled to the brim with packing peanuts and wondered what the heck to do with them, we've got 13 genius answers! These tiny pieces of Styrofoam are best known ...

Question: I’ve got bags of packing peanuts and I’d like to get rid of them. Can I recycle them? Answer: Packing “peanuts” should not be placed in our local recycling. Some are made from Styrofoam ...

Many of us have shared the guilty twinge of pouring a box of packing peanuts into a trash bag, knowing that our convenient foam waste will end up sitting in a landfill for the next few thousand years.

I measured the capacity of the packing cubes two ways: by the number of items they could accommodate from my packing list and by the number of packing peanuts they could hold. I also measured the ...

The Christmas tree is down and the decorations are carefully packed away. Now the big question remains: what to do with those thousands of tiny white pellets spilling out of boxes and clinging to the ...