The recycling symbol on that container doesn't necessarily mean it can go in your curbside bin. Here's how to decode those plastic recycling numbers.

At least 85% of single-use plastic items don’t get recycled, even if they carry the familiar triangular symbol. A California bill would restrict which plastics can bear the mark.

What do the 7 recycling symbols mean? If you have no idea what those recycling numbers mean, that’s okay. Read on to learn how to decode each recycling symbol so you can better understand what ...

The iconic chasing-arrows recycling symbol, invented 20 years earlier, ... As Streep prepares to launch her beer can into the recycling bin, Costner cautions her, ...

In a 2019 survey conducted by the Consumer Brands Association on what they labeled the “broken recycling system in America,” 68 percent of respondents said that they assumed any product with ...

Recycling the wrong things makes the whole system run slower. Here are seven takeout containers that don't belong in your recycling bin.

The bin led Onondaga County to a recycling rate far above the national average. About 60 percent of the county’s waste, including industrial products, heads to recycling instead of the trash.

If you spot a little man throwing some rubbish in a bin, this is simply the UK tidyman symbol. It has no relation to recycling at all and is just reminding you not to litter and to pick up after ...

“I do see their point,” Anderson said. “It was meant to be an overarching symbol to say, ‘Hey, this is recycled, this has been recycled or it’s something you can recycle.

“That would be very clear to the public, and they wouldn’t put it in the recycling bin,” said Heidi Sanborn, executive director at the National Stewardship Action Council. The bill will face its final ...