A pallet leaves the warehouse intact and arrives damaged, returns follow, and waste quietly accumulates. Despite advances in materials, automation, and logistics technology, transport damage remains a ...

Microplastics have become an alarming environmental concern, infiltrating ecosystems and even human bodies. Defined as plastic particles smaller than five millimetres, these tiny pollutants are found ...

I came across a Consumer Reports article that made me laugh. I realize that is probably a strange response to a publication that covers consumer products and services. However, the article I read ...

Meal kits are notorious for their packaging problem: A typical delivery might come with insulation, gel-filled icepacks, and tiny containers or bags holding individual ingredients–like a few leaves of ...

The idea for ShipNaked, a new campaign to reduce the packaging used in e-commerce, came to Sheila Morovati, president and founder of Habits of Waste, when a vacuum arrived at her door in its own box ...

HANCOCK, N.H. — Anyone faced with the task of building a freestanding pile of spheres quickly discovers an obvious solution: Start by laying out the densest possible two-dimensional packing and then ...

Circle packing encapsulates the challenge of optimally arranging a set of circles within a given container without overlap, a process that has profound implications in both theoretical mathematics and ...