Every attic has a few boxes stashed away—the ones you never got around to unpacking after the last move, Grandpa's coin collection, and the old toys your parents shipped to you "because the grandkids ...

The amount of cardboard put out by New Yorkers tends to spike during the holidays. By Joyce Cohen It’s no surprise that buildings these days are burdened by cardboard boxes. “In 2005, the average New ...

At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long before it ever leaves the ground. But YouTuber and serial tinkerer Peter Sripol ...

A new study has shown, for the first time, that waste cardboard can be used as an effective source of biomass fuel for large-scale electricity generation. Engineers from the University of Nottingham ...

History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting to make an ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight ...

A gardener on YouTube is showing viewers an easy technique for preparing garden beds that can help you grow food, create habitat for pollinators, or even replace sections of your lawn. Amy May ...

Are cardboard boxes an indicator of recession? Image by Tim Sandle Are cardboard boxes an indicator of recession? Image by Tim Sandle Many economists and politicians levy theories about potential ...

Many have heard and are concerned about the possibility of the United States economy going into a recession, and some experts are looking at the cardboard box industry to project what may be coming.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. By mixing cardboard, soil, and water researchers have made a strong construction material that has one quarter of cement’s carbon footprint. The low-tech ...

Cement and concrete have built much of our modern world, but they come with a heavy price – massive carbon emissions and mountains of waste. Now, engineers have come up with a low-tech, low-cost ...