A new California law will ban companies from using the symbol if their products aren't commonly recycled. Here's how you can play your part in reducing plastic waste.

California's new law bans the recycling symbol on non-recyclable plastics, aiming to reduce waste. The law, effective October 2026, ensures only truly recyclable items bear the symbol. While it faces ...

KitKat has replaced its logo after discovering half of Australian consumers do not know how to recycle properly. The confectionery giant has changed the logo on its wrappers to KitKat chocolate wafers ...

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 ...

In 1970, Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, when a Chicago container company held a design contest to raise awareness about the environment.

New labeling law: California will ban the 'chasing arrows' recycling symbol on items not commonly recycled, starting October 2026. Goal of the change: The law seeks to reduce contamination in ...

It was 1970 when Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California, saw a poster for a design competition. The task was to design a symbol for recycling in ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The triangular loop of arrows that has been the universal symbol of recycling for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getting it wrong means that waste that could potentially be recycled isn't, or that recycling gets contaminated with ...

M etal Packaging Europe (MPE), the Brussels-based umbrella organization representing producers and suppliers of rigid metal packaging across Europe, has introduced a new recycling logo that the ...