Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day 2025 is on Monday, January 27, 2025: What is Bubble wrap appreciation day?

Monday, January 27, 2025 is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day 2025. Bubble wrap, bubble pack or bubble paper is a pliable transparent plastic material commonly used for packing fragile items.

Bubble wrap, bubble pack or bubble paper is a pliable transparent plastic material commonly used for packing fragile items.

There’s nothing as fun as popping bubble wrap bubbles. Whether you’re unpacking a parcel, playing virtual bubble wrap games online, and have gone to buy bubble wrap especially, Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day may be the day to indulge and obtain popping!

It's Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day today, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, a day honoring the conception of the bubble wrap 50 years ago.

"Spirit 95" Radio, a local radio station in Bloomington, Indiana, officially started Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day in 2001 with a number of events to celebrate the anniversary.

Sealed Air, the company which first made bubble wrap, adds on its Web site that the day is celebrated every year the last Monday of January.

NPR reports that this is the 50th anniversary of the product, which first launched in 1960.

So how can you celebrate?

The easiest way is to get lost on BubbleWrapFun.com, and pass that Web site along to your friends and family. The site is filled with online games, trivia, and more, all related to bubble wrap.

There are also hundreds of bubble wrap Facebook groups, and lots of bubble wrap Twitter chatter today, so exploring the activity on social networks could be interesting too.

The history of bubble wrap?

23 January 2004

Stevens remembers inventor on 'Bubble Wrap® Appreciation Day'

HOBOKEN, N.J. - As America and the world celebrate "Bubble Wrap® Appreciation Day" (Jan. 26th) Stevens Institute of Technology fondly remembers the man who co-invented Bubble Wrap in the late 1950s - an illustrious Stevens alumnus, the late Alfred W. Fielding. Today, Sealed Air Corporation, the Saddle Brook, N.J.-based company he co-founded in 1960, is a worldwide manufacturer of packaging materials with annual revenues exceeding $3 billion.

Fielding's story is one of those inspirational invention tales with a creative, unintended twist - a success story that even today Stevens Institute of Technology students can learn from as they look forward to their careers. The early history of Bubble Wrap just goes to show that, for inventors, keeping an open mind to possible applications is a clear advantage - ultimately, you may start out trying to invent one thing, only to hit on an even better idea. Many inventors, including Fielding, have.

The story begins in 1957 in a garage in Hawthorne, N.J., with two entrepreneurial engineers hard at work, Fielding and his partner, a Swiss inventor named Marc Chavannes. They are trying to invent a plastic wallpaper with a paper backing. It fails. But along the way they realize their invention could be used for packing material. And, to make a long story short, they give birth to what is now known around the world as Bubble Wrap, and Sealed Air Corporation, the company that has developed and marketed it.

Through its technology, Sealed Air Corporation essentially built a specialty chemical business in protective packaging. The kinds of chemical engineering processes employed to make Sealed Air's products a success are taught at Stevens today. What's more, the spirit behind the educational environment at Stevens, known as Technogenesis® (taking ideas from innovation to marketplace implementation), is the very same spirit that led Fielding to found Sealed Air Corporation.

According to one chemical engineering professor at Stevens, Dr. Robert Blanks, "Unintended invention is more common than you might think, and the invention of Bubble Wrap is a great example.

"Another good one is Roy Plunkett's invention of Teflon®, Dupont's blockbuster product," said Blanks, who directs chemical engineering at Stevens. "In 1938 Plunkett was a 27-year-old researcher, fresh out of graduate school, experimenting with refrigerants. He comes upon a nearly discarded sample that has turned into a solid. Rather than just throwing it out, he explores its unique properties.

"That's why today Stevens guides students to learn in ways that will lead them to marketplace applications that can be successful, and part of that learning includes cultivating curiosity and being on the lookout for the unexpected outcome," said Blanks. "The Plunketts and the Fieldings of tomorrow are likely to be young people coming out of universities like Stevens today."

A native of Hackensack, N.J., Fielding graduated from Stevens in 1939. He earned a master of science degree from Stevens in 1943. Stevens awarded him an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree in 1986. He is in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for his role in creating Bubble Wrap, and he was inducted into membership in The Newcomen Society of the United States in 1982. The Newcomen Society recognizes pioneers who have laid the foundations for major enterprises.

Fielding was also particularly generous to his alma mater, providing funds for a laboratory established during his lifetime, and, through his family's continued generosity, for the future establishment of an endowed chairmanship on the Stevens faculty. A conference room in the university's main administration building was named in his honor.

For more information on "Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day," browse sites online, including www.sealedair.com and www.fast-pack.com/bubblewrapappreciation.html . At such sites, you can even while away a few minutes loudly popping the bubbles on "virtual Bubble Wrap" - something the inventors could hardly have envisioned back in 1957.

UNUSUAL USES FOR BUBBLE WRAP:

a. Weird Al gets "freaky" with bubblewrap in his video "White and Nerdy."

b. Use in place of an athletic cup.

c. Use to line bra, instant padding.

d. Use as stuffing for bolster pillow