REVIEW Recently I received a package from . It came in a plastic bubble mailer. Inside the mailer, the product was inside another smaller bubble mailer. Inside that, the product was in a plastic bag.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to provide households with a quick, safe, and simple means of compacting plastic containers of varying sizes," said an inventor, from Chicago, Ill., ...

TL;DR: Texas inventor Ivan Arbouzov built a countertop device that squishes your grocery bags into bricks for recycling. It costs $200 upfront plus $50/month. Yes, really. Remember when everyone was ...

MCKINNEY, Texas, January 5, 2026 (Newswire.com) - Soft plastics have quietly become America's most unrecyclable waste stream. Bags, wraps, films, mailers, and food packaging now make up nearly half of ...

Sean Hollister and Justine Calma reviewed the Clear Drop Soft Plastic Compactor, a shredder-lookin' gadget (see the product page) that slurps in unrecyclable plastic (which is most of it) and ...