6. The 'Seedling' indicates the packaging it is stamped on is industrially compostable. Compostable plastics which carry this ...

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" symbol ...

WASHINGTON — A symbol called a “mobius loop” or the “chasing arrows” is universally recognized as a sign to recycle. Many people assume that a product being stamped with that symbol means it can be ...

It’s a number that you can spot inside the recycling symbol in bottles, containers and other products. The numbers are codes for different types of plastics. The higher the number, the harder it is to ...

Every morning, when state Sen. 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 he ...

You’ve surely seen it before on a laundry detergent bottle label, printed on a ready-made salad bag or stamped onto the container of a thousand other products lining the shelves of grocery and retail ...

Editor’s note: This story is provided by Aspen Journalism, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. For more,visit aspenjournalism.org. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the ...

The Paper Shipping Sack Manufacturers’ Association (PSSMA), Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, has introduced a new recycling symbol for printing on unlined paper shipping sacks that are used to package food ...