The seven recycling symbols on plastic packaging reveal more than you might think, but not all are recycled the same way in ...

Most of us grew up sorting our trash with the quiet confidence that the plastic we set out on the curb would find a second ...

As part of a more effective network of reuse infrastructure, this new symbol could be a catalyst for more effective waste reduction.

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

Biden officials consider whether symbol, created for first Earth Day in 1970, is misleading because of use on non-recyclable material The triangular loop of arrows that has been the universal symbol ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The triangular loop of arrows that has been the universal symbol of recycling for the ...

It was 1970 when Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California, saw a poster for a design competition. The task was to design a symbol for recycling in ...

M etal Packaging Europe (MPE), the Brussels-based umbrella organization representing producers and suppliers of rigid metal packaging across Europe, has introduced a new recycling logo that the ...

Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the ...

The milk chocolate bar found on the front of its packaging will temporarily be replaced with a recycling symbol. It comes after a study commissioned by KitKat found that while 80 per cent of Aussies ...