At least 85% of single-use plastic items don’t get recycled, even if they carry the familiar triangular symbol. A California bill would restrict which plastics can bear the mark.

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 ...

California hopes to put an end to this mix up with a new law that will strictly regulate what products or materials can display the recycling symbol. Background Although paper and metals are often ...

Environment Nation Nation & World His recycling symbol is everywhere. The EPA says it shouldn’t be. Aug. 7, 2023 at 11:11 am By Chang Che ...

Recycling needs some truth in advertising The recycling industry is typically in flux and it is really challenging for folks to know from one month to the next what is happening where. I can tell you, ...

Regulators have taken notice. At the national level, the Federal Trade Commission is preparing an update to its “Green Guides” for the use of sustainability labels, including the recycling symbol.

The May 22 news article “EPA, activists want to trash recycling symbol for plastics that aren’t recyclable” quoted John Hocevar of Greenpeace as saying, “The problem is that if you put 3 ...