We all spent our time wrapping him and Eleanora in foam packaging.

"The foam packaging we should have wrapped you up in," Beckley said.

Earlier in 1987 the group persuaded a number of fast-food chains to stop using foam packaging that is made with chlorofluorocarbons.

The company eventually yielded, partly, as one executive admitted, because "our customers just don't feel good" about foam packaging.

The big rolls of tape - called "pancakes" in the trade - are shipped in plastic foam packaging to protect them from damage.

A broken chunk of yellow foam packaging scraped down the side of the Coogan.

How Customers Feel The company had insisted to the end that its foam packaging was environmentally sound.

In a statement, the company said: "Although some scientific studies indicate that foam packaging is environmentally sound, our customers just don't feel good about it."

The Clapper, eyeing the foam packaging we had laid out for him, started to clap nervously, slowly.

These are widely used as refrigerants and in auto air-conditioners and foam packaging.