Finally Another Use for Those Annoying Packing Peanuts

Getting a package in the mail is exciting but having to deal with the foam peanuts that made sure your goods arrived in one piece, not so much. Try as you might to remove the contents carefully, peanuts are bound to scatter all over your floor. Then, when it comes to throwing them away, they take up such a large amount of your trash bag and can remain in landfills for years.

Though these are mostly minor annoyances in the grand scheme of things, scientists finally devised another use for packing peanuts.

One of the presentations at the 249th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society this week described how the peanuts could be turned into rechargeable battery parts.