The seven recycling symbols on plastic packaging reveal more than you might think, but not all are recycled the same way in ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "chasing arrows" logo is universally recognized as a sign to recycle, but the Environmental Protection Agency is now saying it ...

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.

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

Plastics labeled with a number 1 inside the recycling symbol are about 20.9% likely to be reprocessed, according to Greenpeace. Plastics numbered 3 through 7 have a reprocessing rate of less than 5%, ...

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 ...

For most of the last decade, recycling felt like a stable habit. You sorted your bottles, flattened your cardboard, and dropped everything in the blue bin. The rules changed slowly, if at all. That ...

A survey in the United Kingdom found that recycling-related symbols placed on packaging are understood by most household consumers. When uncertain about which bin to use for a particular piece of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardboard box of plastic bottles with recycling symbol - witsarut sakorn/Shutterstock Even if you have the best intentions around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even if you have the best intentions around plastic consumption, the recycling part of "reduce, reuse, recycle" isn't always ...