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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

People are eating biodegradable packing peanuts under the assumption that they are edible — much to experts’ dismay. On ...

I have packing peanuts that are water soluble. How do I dispose of them? I can't find a name for them in the Recyclopedia. Also, would you consider putting the address for the Recyclopedia in your ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you did much holiday shopping online this year, you likely had to deal with pesky, loose-fill peanut packaging that is tough on the environment and difficult to dispose of or recycle. Packaging ...

I head my dog eating something so I went to check it out and I saw him going in one of my boxes eating some of the peanuts! I picked one up and sniffed it and felt it. It didnt feel or smell like ...