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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,609 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 10:11 AM Oct 2019

As if things weren't bad enough! 😢


Sealed Air, which has sold Bubble Wrap since 1960, has a new version of its protective wrapping coming out called iBubble Wrap, according to the Wall Street Journal.

It’s sold flat and airless, making it easier to store and ship. A single truckload of iBubble Wrap can hold as much packaging material as 47 truckloads of the old stuff, the Journal said.

iBubble Wrap is inflated with a custom pump by the companies that use it as shipping material.

The air bubbles in iBubble Wrap are filled in columns, and the bubbles in each column are connected. Press on one, and there’s no cathartic “POP!” as in traditional Bubble Wrap.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-bubble-wrap_n_7711274

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As if things weren't bad enough! 😢 (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2019 OP
Some people are no fun. zanana1 Oct 2019 #1
You got that right! One year I asked my mother what she wanted for Christmas GemDigger Oct 2019 #3
... eppur_se_muova Oct 2019 #2

zanana1

(6,129 posts)
1. Some people are no fun.
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 10:20 AM
Oct 2019

All we ask for in our miserable lives is the satisfaction of that little "pop". I better stock up on the popable kind!

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
3. You got that right! One year I asked my mother what she wanted for Christmas
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 12:10 PM
Oct 2019

and all she wanted was bubble wrap. So I shipped her a big box stuffed with bubble wrap. She would be disappointed with this change. I am too.

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