submitted a comment about the Green Guides. According to the agency, the use of the resin identification code (RIC) with the recycling symbol—the familiar three chasing arrows—constitutes a ...

Many plastics, especially those numbered from 3 to 7, “are not financially viable to recycle.” Image Gary Anderson, 75, who designed the widely known recycling symbol when he was a university ...

But the UK does not use the Green Dot recycling system, and products are only allowed to display the symbol on packaging if it is also exported to countries where the symbol is mandatory.