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 ...

Bottles and jugs marked with recycling symbols 1 and 2 are usually recyclable. Plastics marked 3, 4, 6 or 7 are seldom recycled. A new report from Greenpeace finds that as little as 5 percent of ...

Each carries the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol; none, she believes, will ever be recycled. Since 2018, when she gave up her career as a chemical engineer, Ms. Dell has run a one ...

To the consumer, this symbol conveys the message that this item is recyclable and, for the sake of the planet, ought to be treated accordingly and not dumped into the trash bin. But to ...

Now new California legislation would restrict what kinds of plastics can have the famous “chasing arrows” recycling symbol on them. It’s waiting for Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature. Democratic State ...

Although it is rarely marked with chasing arrows or a recycling symbol, it is recyclable in L.A.’s blue bin.

The winning design, by a college student named Gary Anderson, was the now-ubiquitous three arrow recycling symbol. In 1971, Oregon was the first state to pass a beverage container deposit law.