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 ... s bill now moving through the Legislature ...

It's recommending tossing the symbol for plastics and replacing ... But items with the other numbers, 3 through 7, are more difficult to recycle. "So, these numbers were a really basic indicator ...

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 ...

As the agency struggles to address low recycling rates ... At issue is the chasing arrows symbol combined with “resin identification code,” a number from 1 through 7 that appears in the ...

In recent years, however, companies have come under scrutiny for being too liberal with their use of the iconic “chasing arrows” recycling symbol ... as recyclable through a non-curbside ...

According to the agency, the use of the resin identification code (RIC) with the recycling symbol—the familiar three chasing arrows—constitutes a misrepresentation of claims. Even though the ...

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 ... Allen’s bill now moving through ...

Many plastics, especially those numbered from 3 to 7, “are not financially viable to recycle.” Anderson agreed that the symbol he created was not meant to be used that way. But he also hoped ...