(CNN) -- Happy Amazon Prime week, the discount-fest that will clutter front stoops and front desks with packages bearing that ubiquitous smiling arrow. It's a reminder that the incredible rise of ...

This week, the Verge reported on the massive onslaught of Amazon’s cardboard boxes at recycling facilities everywhere—otherwise known as the “Amazon effect.” According to Sims Municipal Recycling, one ...

Packaging is an ancient practice. Humans have been improvising containers for holding and transporting things for millennia, from baked clay vases to tanned leather satchels to sawed and nailed wooden ...

San Francisco's trash tonnage increases by about 15 to 17 percent around the holidays. This year a lot of that extra waste will show up in blue recycling bins as small- and medium-size cardboard boxes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon purchases come with a lot of packaging. Do you know the best ways to dispose of it? As if we all don't order enough Amazon ...