Aric Crabb / Digital First Media / Bay Area News via Getty Images The recycling logo still gives anything it touches — whether feasible to recycle or not — a green aura. Surveys show that a ...

In Finis Dunaway’s book “Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images” (2015), he argues that the recycle symbol is one of many images co-opted by industry and polluters ...

You’ve seen the little recycling symbols stamped on plastics, glass, paper, metals and other materials. But what do they mean? We’ve compiled a handy guide to help you decode the dizzying ...

One of the most recognized logos around, the recycling symbol, is in line for a major revamp. California recently became the first state to restrict the use of the widely known "chasing arrows ...

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 ...

The VERIFY team digs into what the recycling symbols really mean. In 1988, the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI) — now known as the Plastics Industry Association — developed the ...

Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing. Did you know the ♻ symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage-sorting game. Then, read on about how we got ...

it argues updates to the iconic chasing arrows recycling symbol would reduce “consumer confusion.” EPA is urging the Federal Trade Commission to ditch the iconic chasing arrows recycling ...