It wasn't intended to indicate plastics' recyclability. But consumers misinterpreted it, and the industry encouraged them.

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.

It’s a number that you can spot inside the recycling symbol in bottles, containers and other products. The numbers are codes for different types of plastics. The higher the number, the harder it is to ...

Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1970 when he entered a design contest sponsored by a box manufacturer for a logo to ...

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 ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill into law that prohibits the “chasing arrows” — a symbol that tells a consumer that an item is recyclable — from being placed on an item that ...

March 27 (UPI) --A total 3,373 people formed into the shape of a recycling logo in India to break a Guinness World Record. Guinness confirmed the event in Chennai broke the record for the world's ...

In a survey conducted by the Carton Council of North America, 75 percent of respondents say they assume a package is not recyclable if it does not contain a recycling logo or information. Image ...