When the holiday season approaches in October, the popularity of unboxing videos marks a seasonal rise. These popular videos are pretty habit forming. But why are they so popular? What drives us to ...

Making paper is both high-tech and simple. High-tech because of the way trees are processed to create wood pulp, the substance paper is made of, while supporting the circular economy and giving back ...

Join the Movement Why is Retta the first official papertarian? Because like most of us, her life and career were built on paper. And it’s about time we call it what it is: a movement. But if you ...

With each passing day, it becomes a little easier to become detached from the people we care about. Work is crazy, the kids won’t give you a break, you got a new phone and lost all your contacts.

If you’re not hungry now, you may be after watching The Next Great Package: Design for Food. In this installment, designers reinvent the takeout meal package for Moe’s Southwest Grill. Enjoy the ...

If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of ...

Z is for the zillions of products made from trees! From A to Z, we use #EveryPartoftheTree. Learn more here!

It’s safe to say that there are few people on Earth who don’t know the story of Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare’s tragic story of two star-crossed lovers has been adapted hundreds—if not ...

Did you know that paper and paper-based packaging are among the most recycled materials in the United States? And you can feel good knowing that by recycling, you are reusing resources, making the ...

The Origins of Cardboard While there is one documented reference to a cardboard box before the 1850s, the cardboard box as we know it today originated in 1856, when two top-hat salesmen rigged up a ...

In fact, 71-76% of all cardboard boxes in the U.S. were recycled in 2023. And the paper and packaging industry is determined to see that number grow with projects announced or expected to be completed ...

A papertarian is a fun term coined by the Paper and Packaging Board to highlight someone who lives a paper-based lifestyle. It’s about opting for paper-based packaging, and then recycling that ...