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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Image Plastic bottles in a recycling bin, marked with the chasing-arrows symbol and numbers for the plastic types, in Santa Monica, Calif.Credit...Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal ...

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 lie, which the plastics industry has spent many millions of dollars and decades promoting, goes all the way down to that extremely pesky “recyclable” symbol! It really is meaningless!

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...