January 26, 2009 No doubt many readers are still nursing injuries sustained on Christmas morning as they tried to free a new toy or gadget from the impenetrable fortress that is clamshell packaging.

Featured specifically: the McDonald’s Double Clam Shell Container — a twice-the-size package designed to keep hot and cold ...

How often have you struggled to open tamper-proof jars or medicine caps? Have you ever cut yourself while wrestling with shrink-wrap and hard, sharp plastic covers? Not only do product designs ...

Portland loves to reduce, reuse and, of course, recycle. But even here there are some things that just cannot be recycled. Take the plastic clamshell box, ubiquitous at grocery stores, full of ...

I’ve decided that clamshells are cool for clams but infuriating for the rest of us. Have you ever tried to sneak some leftover chow mein, a grocery-store cookie or fruit-topped slice of cheesecake at ...

Sometimes the only thing that stands between you and a product your purchased (or gift you opened) is that pesky, annoying, impossible plastic clamshell packaging. But before you tackle it with your ...