Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

Plastic recycling seems easy — anything with the chasing arrows recycle symbol with a number in it means it can be recycled, and if there is no symbol it can’t be recycled, right? Unfortunately, no.

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

An ASTM International plastics committee has announced a big change to the Resin Identification Code: The iconic chasing-arrows symbol will be replaced by a solid, equilateral triangle. The RIC — Nos.

Packaging coating maker Inhance Technologies is pushing back on the Association of Plastic Recyclers decision to pause recognition of fluorinated packaging in its recyclability guidance.

To facilitate the recycling of polymeric and plastic materials the Society of the Plastics Industry has developed a resin identification code. The accurate use of these codes by manufacturers can have ...

One of my pet peeves is the labels on plastic – that little triangle with a number inside it that the plastic manufacturers are required to place on bottles and containers. Most of the time I can’t ...

Just past 8 last Thursday morning, a crew from Bates Facility Services drove their red Chevy pickup truck to a nearby recycling center. They weren’t making a delivery to Casella Waste Systems — the ...

A hidden two-letter code stamped on plastic food containers reveals just how toxic it may be. Consumers are advised to check for labels marked PP (polypropylene) or PE (polyethylene), plastics deemed ...