Colgate redesigned its toothpaste tubes so they can go into curbside recycling bins. It could eventually keep a billion tubes out of landfills each year. Every year, Americans toss a billion tubes of ...

Barrier tube packaging is growing in use across cosmetics, food, and pharmaceuticals for its product protection, longer shelf ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Since May, the Trump administration has paid a fledgling ...

Do you know who invented the first plastic toothpaste tube? According to this story in the Lowell Sun, it was Westford, Mass., plastics expert Roger Brandt, who died on Dec. 8 at age 88. Brandt worked ...

W. CONSHOHOCKEN, PA — A new ASTM International standard will empower producers of certain kinds of plastic tubes to conduct better, faster quality control testing at a lower cost and with greater ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid Fillakit — a small company formed in May that operates out of a Houston suburb — $7.3 million since May to supply it with test tubes for COVID-19 ...

According to researchers from Towards Packaging, the global tube packaging market, estimated at USD 12.02 billion in 2025, is ...

According to Towards Packaging consultants, the global pharmaceutical tube packaging market is expected to experience steady growth throughout the forecast period, expanding significantly by 2034 from ...

Reforestation projects in the UK should consider planting new trees without the common plastic guards designed to protect saplings, a new study suggests. The polypropylene tubes help young trees ...

ZURICH, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Amcor (NYSE: AMCR, ASX: AMC), a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, has achieved significant material savings as part of ...

They say that a poor workman blames his tools but according to a new study, laboratory scientists may well have cause to. Reid Macdonald from the University of Alberta has found that some botched ...