This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

How confident are you that you always put the right rubbish in the right bin? Getting it wrong means that waste that could potentially be recycled isn't, or that recycling gets contaminated with ...

The milk chocolate bar found on the front of its packaging will temporarily be replaced with a recycling symbol. It comes after a study commissioned by KitKat found that while 80 per cent of Aussies ...

DENTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Carton Council of North America is proud to announce that 60 percent of U.S. households are able to recycle food and beverage cartons through their local recycling ...

MINNEAPOLIS, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCA Recycling, Inc. (ARCA), a wholly owned subsidiary of JanOne Inc. (NASDAQ: JAN), unveiled a new logo that aligns its visual identity with the innovative ...