For decades, we’ve been told that plastic waste is recyclable, and have been encouraged to recycle our plastic bottles and ...

Those flimsy plastic nursery pots can pile up quickly in the spring. If you don't want to reuse the pots, consider this easy ...

You separate your bottles. Rinse your cans. Maybe even toss food scraps into a bin labeled “compost.” But is it enough? And are you doing it right? Improving waste sorting and recycling isn’t just ...

Back up anything you want off the device -- photos, videos ... EPA's directory breaks down donation and recycling by electronic device, company name, logo and any additional details.

It also addressed potential confusion created by the “chasing arrows” recycling symbol, which often identifies the type of plastic resin used in a product, using the numbers 1 through 7.

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 ...

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 ...

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 in order ...

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The 1-7 resin ID code and chasing-arrows triangle symbol were developed by the plastics industry, not the government. Some "people see the recycling symbol and assume or hope the item will be ...