Portland loves to reduce, reuse and, of course, recycle. But even here there are some things that just cannot be recycled. Take the plastic clamshell box, ubiquitous at grocery stores, full of ...

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 ...

Susanne Rust inspects the waste accumulated over a week at her home. U.S. studies show that only about 5% of the more than 50 million tons of annual plastic waste gets recycled. (Gary Coronado / Los ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon today announced that its Frustration-Free Packaging initiative, a multi-year effort to liberate products from hermetically sealed clamshell cases and ...

There’s a part of Christmas morning that Tiffany Seay dreads: getting everything out of its packaging. The twisties. The tape. The hard plastic ties, like handcuffs for dolls. “It takes at least 40 ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland & SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Logitech International (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI) today announces significant progress in eliminating plastic clamshell packaging from its ...

There's a part of Christmas morning that Tiffany Seay dreads: getting everything out of its packaging. The twisties. The tape. The hard plastic ties, like handcuffs for dolls. The itty-bitty ...

Most of us are familiar with the difficulty of opening some types of plastic packaging- especially the hard packaging that encases so many things. The frustration has been coined "wrap rage." The ...

Logitech International announced April 2 that it has made significant progress in eliminating plastic clamshell packaging from its hallmark computer mice categories, with the transition to paper ...