Best Buy also offers a mail-in recycling service for select items, but that's also not free. A small box that holds up to 6 pounds costs $23, while a large box (up to 15 pounds) costs $30.

A new rule was needed, the agency said, to help clear up this confusion. In 2021, California passed a law to restrict the use of the logo to avoid misleading claims about recycling.

Brand guides warn against stretching or otherwise manipulating a logo’s shape, but for a new campaign to encourage recycling in Latin America called “Recycle Me,” Coke crunched its logo like ...

The higher the number, the harder it is to recycle the product, which means there’s less of a market to sell them. NBC6 visited a recycling facility in Pembroke Pines to see it firsthand.