What if there was a thinner, faster battery waiting to be discovered in the trash? The humble packing peanut, yes, that floor-cluttering plastic confetti, could be getting a new livelihood soon.

This schematic depicts a process for converting waste packing peanuts into high-performance carbon electrodes for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that outperform conventional graphite electrodes, ...

Opening a package only to have your apartment flooded with packing peanuts is an annoying experience – and a total waste of plastic. But researchers Vilas Pol and Vinodkumar Etacheri at Purdue ...

Packing peanuts make shipping fragile objects easy. But the puffy particles become a wasteful nuisance once the shipment is complete. Now researchers report a method to turn them into something useful ...

I hate these things. Next time I order something over the Internet, I am going to send a query of some sort—maybe even call customer service—and ask if the thing comes packed in packing peanuts. If it ...

Those little white polystyrene-foam packaging peanuts are nearly ubiquitous in our pack-and-ship culture, but they are no good for the environment, let alone human health. The basic building block of ...

Hate buying some new gadget, only to wind up with a sea of packing peanuts that do little more than spill on to the floor? Don't be too quick to toss them out -- they may be the key to a new ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to ban all styrofoam plastic containers and packing peanuts throughout the state, he announced Tuesday — despite concerns from businesses about government overreach. “Styrofoam ...

School officials in Craig are staying very tight-lipped about why students at Craig Middle School ate packing peanuts during a science class and had to be treated at a hospital last week. “We are ...

Q: Is there a place to recycle the packing peanuts I get with mail-order packages? — O.N., Williamsburg A: Yes. The Plastic Loose Fill Council is promoting the reuse of those annoying packing peanuts ...

Zimoun is a master of manipulation. Give the Swiss artist the most basic of materials—cotton balls, crinkled paper, cardboard boxes—and he’ll somehow transform them into a mesmerizing soundscape. In ...

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 ...