The seven recycling symbols on plastic packaging reveal more than you might think, but not all are recycled the same way in ...

When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

As part of a more effective network of reuse infrastructure, this new symbol could be a catalyst for more effective waste reduction.

Reuse and refill businesses in the Portland area are among the initial adopters of PR3’s new logo that organizers hope ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

Recycling symbols on plastics, known as Resin Identification Codes, were designed for industrial sorting, not as consumer recycling guides. Experts warn that most plastics marked with these symbols ...