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What is bubble wrap?

Bubble wrap is a plastic material contains evenly spaced, protruding air-filled pockets. The term “bubble wrap” is a generic trademark owned by Sealed Air Corporation, co-founded by Alfred Fielding in 1960.  The air-filled plastic packaging that comes with such shipments as Amazon packages is the same principal and made from the same or similar material.

What are padded mailing envelopes made of?

The outside of padded envelopes, or padded mailers, can be made of heavy paper, paperboard or corrugated fiberboard.

These are recyclable materials if they were recycled as a stand-alone item. It’s when they are fused with padding material that their ability to be recycled becomes more difficult to discern.