For decades, three arrows pointing in a triangular loop have been the iconic symbol for recycling, but that could change. The Environmental Protection Agency — along with thousands of ...

Image Gary Anderson, 75, who designed the widely known recycling symbol when he was a university student in 1970, at his home in Baltimore.Credit...Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times Mr ...

The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol, invented 20 years earlier, was everywhere in the early 1990s. Its tight spiral of folded arrows seemed to promise that discarded glass bottles and ...

According to the agency, the use of the resin identification code (RIC) with the recycling symbol—the familiar three chasing arrows—constitutes a misrepresentation of claims. Even though the ...

It called for students to create a symbol to promote the recycling of paper products, with a winner to be selected at that summer’s International Design Conference at Aspen. The winning black ...

Those grocery-bag drop-off boxes, she says, are glorified trash bins. That swirly recycling symbol on coffee lids and granola pouches is more fantasy than fact. Clear plastic bottles are ...

Each carries the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol; none, she believes, will ever be recycled. Since 2018, when she gave up her career as a chemical engineer, Ms. Dell has run a one ...

Picture this: You finish a drink from a red Solo cup, and before throwing it out, you check the bottom of the cup to see the iconic recycling symbol. That means it can be tossed in the recycling ...

These are the toughest plastics to recycle and most likely to be excluded in your local recycling program: Symbol 3 – Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, found in pipes, shower curtains and some food ...

Myth: If an item has the recycling symbol on it, it can be recycled. Reality: Not always. The recycling symbol and number inside of the symbol are there to indicate the type of plastic the item is ...