There are some truly creative ways to recycle and/or repurpose materials. For example, plastic waste (with a dash of bacteria) can become vanilla. It’s rarely a bad thing to help the environment in ...

You open a shipment from a brand you love, and the box feels flimsy. The printing’s smudged. Worst of all? A big green leaf logo claims “eco-friendly,” but you spot […] ...

"Freight Farms," founded in Boston, Mass. in 2010, was the first company to retrofit large shipping containers into backyard vertical farms. Today, it's the largest producer of vertical farms in the ...

SnapSpace Solutions Inc. (SSI), Brewer, Maine, loaded a fully constructed building onto a jumbo jet Saturday at Bangor International Airport. The restroom structure was commissioned by the Federal ...

new video loaded: Shipping crates get new 'lease' on life Shipping containers have been piling up as America imports more than it exports. Some university students in Washington D.C. are set to get a ...

Introduced in December, Diamond Comic Distributor's redesigned 200-count, 400-count, and 200/400-count combo shipping boxes were intended to provide comic store retailers with stronger structural ...

Most moving boxes are recyclable, but it all depends on what the boxes are made of and what they contain. Clean (as in dry and not covered in food waste) cardboard moving boxes are recyclable as long ...

Recycling properly takes a bit of precision. Here are seven takeout containers that should stay out of the blue bin.

The Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) says its member companies are among exporting firms “reporting extreme difficulties obtaining ocean shipping containers from ocean ...