A new California law will ban companies from using the symbol if their products aren’t commonly recycled. Here’s how you can ...

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's easy to believe this common myth about recycling food plastic, but it's actually causing more harm to the environment ...

California's new law bans the recycling symbol on non-recyclable plastics, aiming to reduce waste. The law, effective October ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...