The recycling symbol—those three arrows stamped on myriad plastic items—doesn’t mean what most people think it does, and a California bill wants to change that. The California Legislature passed a ...

After 50 years, the “chasing arrows” recycling symbol may be heading in a new direction, The New York Times reported. While it will remain widely in use on many recyclables, the Environmental ...

Every morning, when state Sen. Ben Allen would grab the newspaper from outside his Santa Monica home, he’d pull off the plastic sleeve bearing the triangular recycling symbol and throw it where he ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a ...

California milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol, the one with the chasing arrows, potentially threatening the ...

I'll see the symbol and then the text says it was made with recycled materials ... wait does that mean I can recycle it or ? Hello? I'm in the Plastics industry, it's super frustrating. We can ...

Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty & ...