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 ...

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 ...

M etal Packaging Europe (MPE), the Brussels-based umbrella organization representing producers and suppliers of rigid metal packaging across Europe, has introduced a new recycling logo that the ...

In 1970, Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, when a Chicago container company held a design contest to raise awareness about the environment.

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 ...

How confident are you that you always put the right rubbish in the right bin? Getting it wrong means that waste that could potentially be recycled isn't, or that recycling gets contaminated with ...

The milk chocolate bar found on the front of its packaging will temporarily be replaced with a recycling symbol. It comes after a study commissioned by KitKat found that while 80 per cent of Aussies ...

KitKat has replaced its logo after discovering half of Australian consumers do not know how to recycle properly. The confectionery giant has changed the logo on its wrappers to KitKat chocolate wafers ...

London-based creative studio Truant has designed a new logo to represent electronics recycling. Electronics waste (also known as e-waste) is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, according to ...

Should it be illegal for companies to use the famous "chasing arrows" recycling symbol on products that are not recyclable or are rarely recycled? The City of Philadelphia certainly thinks so, having ...