Best-read, coolest “arcticles” of January detail wireless power, food-packaging essentials, bioplastics from seaweed, small barrier bottles, and reborn designs.
On the heels of a draft opinion from the European Food Safety Authority that dramatically lowers the safe level of BPA intake, groups petition FDA to set strict new limits on food-contacting plastics.
US theater boxes of M&M’S are no longer wrapped in plastic. The result for brand owner Mars Wrigley is an out-of-this-world reduction in food packaging waste.
The beer can was celebrated January 24 on Twitter with historical Bud and Miller designs, a house of cans, a can pinhole camera, a tattoo, several dog tales, and more.