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 ...

Have you got a big box in your basement filled with packing peanuts that you hate to throw out? Many businesses that handle mailing and shipping services will take polystyrene packing material — known ...

A bizarre trend has emerged on TikTok, where users are consuming biodegradable packing peanuts under the assumption that they ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers developed a process to convert packing peanuts into electrodes for lithium-ion batteries The electrodes outperformed traditional graphite ones, increasing storage capacity and charging ...

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, ...